The Internet Imaginaire (The MIT Press)

Type

Book

Authors

Flichy, Patrice

ISBN 10

0262562383

ISBN 13

9780262562386

Tags

Internet, Groupware, & Telecommunications, History, Communication & Media Studies, Censorship

Description

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.

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