Critical Perspectives on the Internet

This critical reader of original essays places the boom and bust years of the Internet in a broad cultural context. Exploring the world of html, web browsers, cookies, online net guides, portals, and Internet service providers, the text includes the history of the Internet, interesting case studies and discussions on online community, user inequalities, and governance. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Preface: A Critical Primer for the Internet

ix

Greg Elmer

Acknowledgments

xiii

Part I: Critical Introductions

Disorganizing the ``New Technology''

3

(24)

David Sholle

A Critical History of the Internet

27

(22)

Brian Martin Murphy

Part II: Net Architecture

The Case of Web Browser Cookies: Enabling/Disabling Convenience and Relevance on the Web

49

(14)

Greg Elmer

Surfing for Knowledge in the Information Society

63

(26)

Richard Rogers

Andres Zelman

Part III: Rethinking Net Communities

The Myth of the Unmarked Net Speaker

89

(16)

Alice Crawford

Digitizing and Globalizing Indigenous voices: The Zapatista Movement

105

(24)

Donna M. Kowal

Part IV: Globalization and Governance

E-Capital and the Many-Headed Hydra

129

(36)

Nick Dyer-Witheford

Convergence Policy: It's Not What You Dance, It's the Way You Dance It

165

(18)

Marcus Breen

Internet Globalization and the Political Economy of Infrastructure

183

(20)

Bram Dov Abramson

Index

203

(12)

About the Contributors

215

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