{"product_id":"cultures-of-the-internet","title":"Cultures of the Internet","description":"The Internet is here but have we caught up with all the implications for culture and everyday life? This collection of original articles on the development of computer-mediated communications brings together many of the most accomplished writers on the Net and cyberspace.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCultures of Internet\u003c\/b\u003e examines the arrival of e-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospect of an `online world′ - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it supplements the physical encounters between actors in public spaces that are abandoned to the homeless.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is distinguished by a critical and social tone. It presents systematic descriptions of the development of the Internet, its history in the military-industrial complex, the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel, and the building of information `superhighways′. It also explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SAGE Publications Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54259525353816,"sku":"9780803975194","price":58.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780803975194_bba2cf4c-8520-45e7-9a81-d4ab4158a2d4.jpg?v=1777787154","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/cultures-of-the-internet","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}