The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories Contributor(s): Goggin, Gerard (Editor), McLelland, Mark (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1138812161 ISBN-13: 9781138812161 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $346.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Computers | History |
Dewey: 384.309 |
LCCN: 2016038503 |
Series: Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions |
Physical Information: 548 pages |
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Publisher Description: The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and formulation of its histories outside of an anglophone framework is still very much in its infancy. From Tunisia to Taiwan, this volume emphasizes the importance of understanding and formulating Internet histories outside of the anglophone case studies and theoretical paradigms that have thus far dominated academic scholarship on Internet history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the collection offers a variety of historical lenses on the development of the Internet: as a new communication technology seen in the context of older technologies; as a new form of sociality read alongside previous technologically mediated means of relating; and as a new media vehicle for the communication of content. |