This collection of articles brings together many writers on the Net and Cyberspace in one volume. This volume examines the arrival of E-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospects for an online world - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book: systematically describes the development of the Internet, including its history in the military-industrial complex, and the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel and the building of information superhighways; traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it appears about to replace physical encounters between actors in public places, which will become the sole preserve of the homeless; and explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
SAGE Publications LTD
ISBN-13
9780803975194
eBay Product ID (ePID)
89077021
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Cultures of the Internet: Virtual Spaces, Real Histories, Living Bodies
Publication Year
1996
Subject
Sociology
Type
Textbook
Author
Robert M Shields
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
234 mm
Item Weight
360 g
Item Width
156 mm
Additional Product Features
Editor
Robert M Shields
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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