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The Internet Imaginaire
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Author : Patrice Flichy
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2008-09-26
The Internet Imaginaire written by Patrice Flichy and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-26 with Computers categories.
The collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet: what led software designers, managers, employees, politicians, and individuals to develop and adopt one particular technology. In The Internet Imaginaire, sociologist Patrice Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet—the social imagination that envisioned a technological utopia in the birth of a new technology. By examining in detail the discourses surrounding the development of the Internet in the United States in the 1990s (and considering them an integral part of that development), Flichy shows how an entire society began a new technological era. The metaphorical "information superhighway" became a technical utopia that informed a technological program. The Internet imaginaire, Flichy argues, led software designers, businesses, politicians, and individuals to adopt this one technology instead of another. Flichy draws on writings by experts—paying particular attention to the gurus of Wired magazine, but also citing articles in Time, Newsweek, and Business Week—from 1991 to 1995. He describes two main domains of the technical imaginaire: the utopias (and ideologies) associated with the development of technical devices; and the depictions of an imaginary digital society. He analyzes the founding myths of cyberculture—the representations of technical systems expressing the dreams and experiments of designers and promoters that developed around information highways, the Internet, Bulletin Board systems, and virtual reality. And he offers a treatise on "the virtual society imaginaire," discussing visionaries from Teilhard de Chardin to William Gibson, the body and the virtual, cyberdemocracy and the end of politics, and the new economy of the immaterial.
The Internet Imaginaire
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
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In The Internet Imaginaire, sociologist Patrice Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet & mdash;the social imagination that envisioned a technological utopia in the birth of a new technology. By examining in detail the discourses surrounding the development of the Internet in the United States in the 1990s (and considering them an integral part of that development), Flichy shows how an entire society began a new technological era. The metaphorical "information superhighway" became a technical utopia that informed a technological program. The Internet imaginaire, Flichy argues, led software designers, businesses, politicians, and individuals to adopt this one technology instead of another. Flichy draws on writings by experts & mdash;paying particular attention to the gurus of Wiredmagazine, but also citing articles in Time, Newsweek, and Business Week & mdash;from 1991 to 1995. He describes two main domains of the technical imaginaire: the utopias (and ideologies) associated with the development of technical devices and the depictions of an imaginary digital society. He analyzes the founding myths of cyberculture & mdash;the representations of technical systems expressing the dreams and experiments of designers and promoters that developed around information highways, the Internet, Bulletin Board systems, and virtual reality. And he offers a treatise on "the virtual society imaginaire," discussing visionaries from Teilhard de Chardin to William Gibson, the body and the virtual, cyberdemocracy and the end of politics, and the new economy of the immaterial.
Le Nouvel Ge Et L Imaginaire Mystique Des R Seaux Num Riques The New Age And Mystical Imaginary Of Digital Networks
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Author : Carlos Aguiar
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Le Nouvel Ge Et L Imaginaire Mystique Des R Seaux Num Riques The New Age And Mystical Imaginary Of Digital Networks written by Carlos Aguiar and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Cet article cherche à sonder l'imaginaire mystique présent dans les réseaux numériques à partir d'une étude participative en ligne sur la présence du mouvement Nouvel Âge sur internet, et notamment sa lecture dans le contexte brésilien. Notre stratégie de recherche est de vivre sur internet et à travers l'internet une expérience mystique et virtuelle, créant un chemin particulier à travers le réseau, un chemin unique capable de transmettre les particularités qualitatives de cette présence et de fournir des éléments pour aborder une partie de l'imaginaire contemporain partagé dans les réseaux numériques en ce qui concerne le sacré. This article seeks to probe the mystical imaginary present in digital networks from an online participatory study about the presence of the new age movement on the internet, especially the Brazilian context of the movement. The proposal is to experience on internet and through internet a mystical and virtual experience, creating a singular pathway through the network, capable of transmitting qualitative peculiarities of this presence and providing subsidies to the approach of part of the contemporary imaginary in relation to the sacred shared in digital networks.
The Internet Myth
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Author : Paolo Bory
language : en
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Release Date : 2020-04-29
The Internet Myth written by Paolo Bory and has been published by University of Westminster Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
‘The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries, and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as this book is to understand our shattered digital world, it is essential for those who would fix it.’ — Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart City in a Digital World The Internet Myth retraces and challenges the myth laying at the foundations of the network ideologies – the idea that networks, by themselves, are the main agents of social, economic, political and cultural change. By comparing and integrating different sources related to network histories, this book emphasizes how a dominant narrative has extensively contributed to the construction of the Internet myth while other visions of the networked society have been erased from the collective imaginary. The book decodes, analyzes and challenges the foundations of the network ideologies looking at how networks have been imagined, designed and promoted during the crucial phase of the 1990s. Three case studies are scrutinized so as to reveal the complexity of network imaginaries in this decade: the birth of the Web and the mythopoesis of its inventor; and the histories of two Italian networking projects, the infrastructural plan Socrate and the civic network Iperbole, the first to give free Internet access to citizens. The Internet Myth thereby provides a compelling and hidden sociohistorical narrative in order to challenge one of the most powerful myths of our time. This title has been published with the financial assistance of the Fondazione Hilda e Felice Vitali, Lugano, Switzerland.
L Imaginaire D Internet
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Author : Patrice Flichy
language : fr
Publisher: La Découverte
Release Date : 2012-07-12
L Imaginaire D Internet written by Patrice Flichy and has been published by La Découverte this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-12 with Performing Arts categories.
La genèse de l'imaginaire technique des concepteurs et des diffuseurs des " autoroutes de l'information ", d'Internet et de la réalité virtuelle. (Cette édition numérique reprend, à l'identique, l'édition originale de 2001.) Internet est aujourd'hui au cœur de l'informatique et des télécommunications. Dans les entreprises, cadres et employés l'utilisent pour produire et se coordonner ; à la maison, les particuliers se branchent de plus en plus sur la Toile pour communiquer avec leurs proches ou pour rechercher de l'information. Pour Patrice Flichy, les nombreuses utopies ou idéologies qui ont accompagné la conception et la diffusion d'Internet ont joué un rôle décisif dans la mobilisation des internautes, sans qu'ils en soient toujours conscients. Il en apporte la démonstration dans ce livre en s'appuyant sur un vaste corpus de textes d'experts américains, peu connus en Europe, mais aussi de la presse spécialisée ou grand public. Il retrace ainsi la genèse, tout à fait passionnante, de l'imaginaire technique des concepteurs et des diffuseurs des " autoroutes de l'information ", d'Internet et de la réalité virtuelle. Grâce à l'informatique, ces innovateurs ont pu transformer leurs rêves et leurs projets en une réalisation technique. Et, petit à petit, ils ont imaginé une " société numérique " différente de la société réelle, définissant une nouvelle place pour l'individu au sein du cyberespace. Comment gère-t-il son corps et son rapport aux autres ? Comment participe-t-il à des communautés en ligne où il pourra mettre en valeur différentes facettes de sa personnalité ? Enfin, comment faire fonctionner cette nouvelle société : faut-il réguler le cyberespace, ou s'agit-il au contraire du prototype d'une société autorégulée ? Internet permet-il de construire une nouvelle économie ? Toutes ces réflexions éclairent le succès d'Internet et définissent le cadre des débats des années à venir.
Theories Of The Mobile Internet
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Author : Andrew Herman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-27
Theories Of The Mobile Internet written by Andrew Herman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-27 with Computers categories.
This volume proposes the mobile Internet is best understood as a socio-technical "assemblage" of objects, practices, symbolic representations, experiences and affects. Authors from a variety of disciplines discuss practices mediated through mobile communication, including current phone and tablet devices. The converging concepts of Materialities (ranging from the political economy of communication to physical devices) and Imaginaries (including cultural values, desires and perceptions) are touchstones for each of the chapters in the book.
Imagining The Internet
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Author : Robin Mansell
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2012-07-12
Imagining The Internet written by Robin Mansell and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-07-12 with Business & Economics categories.
This book brings together and reviews different disciplinary approaches to digital information and communication systems across the social sciences. It synthesises the developments of the Internet Age, and the micro and macro consequences of these developments.
Misunderstanding The Internet
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Author : James Curran
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-02-05
Misunderstanding The Internet written by James Curran and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-02-05 with Computers categories.
The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies. However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, assuming that the internet’s potential will be realised in essentially positive and transformative ways. This was especially true in the euphoric moment of the mid-1990s, when many commentators wrote about the internet with awe and wonderment. While this moment may be over, its underlying technocentrism – the belief that technology determines outcomes – lingers on and, with it, a failure to understand the internet in its social, economic and political contexts. Misunderstanding the Internet is a short introduction, encompassing the history, sociology, politics and economics of the internet and its impact on society. This expanded and updated second edition is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed guide to the key claims that have been made about the online world. It aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies that surround the internet.
Can The Internet Strengthen Democracy
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Author : Stephen Coleman
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2017-05-11
Can The Internet Strengthen Democracy written by Stephen Coleman and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-11 with Political Science categories.
From its inception as a public communication network, the Internet was regarded by many people as a potential means of escaping from the stranglehold of top-down, stage-managed politics. If hundreds of millions of people could be the producers as well as receivers of political messages, could that invigorate democracy? If political elites fail to respond to such energy, where will it leave them? In this short book, internationally renowned scholar of political communication, Stephen Coleman, argues that the best way to strengthen democracy is to re-invent it for the twenty-first century. Governments and global institutions have failed to seize the opportunity to democratise their ways of operating, but online citizens are ahead of them, developing practices that could revolutionise the exercise of political power.
Media Independence
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Author : James Bennett
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-11-20
Media Independence written by James Bennett and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-20 with Business & Economics categories.
Media independence is central to the organization, make-up, working practices and output of media systems across the globe. Often stemming from western notions of individual and political freedoms, independence has informed the development of media across a range of platforms: from the freedom of the press as the "fourth estate" and the rise of Hollywood’s Independent studios and Independent television in Britain, through to the importance of "Indy" labels in music and gaming and the increasing importance of independence of voice in citizen journalism. Media independence for many, therefore, has come to mean working with freedom: from state control or interference, from monopoly, from market forces, as well as freedom to report, comment, create and document without fear of persecution. However, far from a stable concept that informs all media systems, the notion of media independence has long been contested, forming a crucial tension point in the regulation, shape, size and role of the media around the globe. Contributors including David Hesmondhalgh, Gholam Khiabany, José van Dijck, Hector Postigo, Anthony Fung, Stuart Allan and Geoff King demonstrate how the notion of independence has remained paramount, but contested, in ideals of what the media is for, how it should be regulated, what it should produce and what working within it should be like. They address questions of economics, labor relations, production cultures, ideologies and social functions.