| Description |
xi, 382 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Electronic culture--history, theory, practice |
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Electronic culture--history, theory, practice.
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| Contents |
Theory: Essay on Speculative Media Theory (1996); Portrait of the Virtual Intellectual (1997) -- Case Studies: The Digital City-Metaphor and Community (2001); The Moderation Question: Nettime and the Boundaries of Mailing List Culture (2001) -- Crystals of Net Criticism: Language? No Problem (1996); A Push Media Critique (1997); Mass Psychology of the Net: A Proposal (1998); Net.Times, Not Swatch Time: 21st-Century Global Time Wars (1998); Fragments of Network Criticism (1999); Sweet Erosions of Email (2000) -- Travelogues: Culture after the Final Breakdown: Tirana, Albania, May 1998 (1998); The 9/21 Aftershocks: Taiwan, December 1999 (1999); At the Opening of New Media Centre Sarai: Delhi, February 2001 (2001) -- Dynamics of Net Culture: Radical Media Pragmatism (1998); Network Fears and Desires (1998); An Early History of 1990s Cyberculture (1999); The Importance of Meetspace: On Conferences and Temporary Media Labs (2000); Insider's Guide to Tactical Media (2001) -- Reality Check: Organized Innocence and War in the New Europe: Adilkno, Culture, and the Independent Media (1995); Soros and the NGO Question, or The Art of Being Independent (1997); Information Warfare: From Propaganda Critique to Culture Jamming (1998); Kosovo: War in the Age of Internet (1999) -- Towards a Political Economy: Cyberculture in the Dotcom Age (2000); The Rise and Fall of Dotcom Mania (2001); Hi-Low: The Bandwidth Dilemma, or Internet Stagnation after Dotcom Mania (2001) |
| Summary |
"In Dark Fiber, Lovink combines aesthetic and ethical concerns and issues of navigation and usability without ever losing sight of the cultural and economic agendas of those who control hardware, software, content, design, and delivery. He examines the unwarranted faith of the cyber-libertarians in the ability of market forces to create a decentralized, accessible communication system. He studies the inner dynamics of hackers' groups, Internet activists, and artists, seeking to understand the social laws of online life. Finally, he calls for the injection of political and economic competence into the community of freedom-loving cyber-citizens, to wrest the Internet from corporate and state control."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (page ([380]-382) |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects.
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Information society.
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Culture.
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| LC no. |
2001059641 |
| ISBN |
0262621800 |
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0262122499 hardcover alkaline paper |
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