Stephanie Ricker Schulte

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Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular CultureHardcover, 18 March 2013

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Part of Series
Critical Cultural Communication
Part of Series
Critical Cultural Communication (Hardcover)
Print Length
272 pages
Language
English
Publisher
New York University Press
Date Published
18 Mar 2013
ISBN-10
0814708668
ISBN-13
9780814708668

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"This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written. We can't make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without reading Schulte's elegant account of what the Internet has meant at various points in the past 30 years."--Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chair of the Department of Media Studies at The University of Virginia In the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world. It offered users new ways to relate to one another, to share their lives, and to spend their time--shopping, working, learning, and even taking political or social action. Policymakers and news media attempted--and often struggled--to make sense of the emergence and expansion of this new technology. They imagined the internet in conflicting terms: as a toy for teenagers, a national security threat, a new democratic frontier, an information superhighway, a virtual reality, and a framework for promoting globalization and revolution. Schulte maintains that contested concepts had material consequences and helped shape not just our sense of the internet, but the development of the technology itself. Cached focuses on how people imagine and relate to technology, delving into the political and cultural debates that produced the internet as a core technology able to revise economics, politics, and culture, as well as to alter lived experience. Schulte illustrates the conflicting and indirect ways in which culture and policy combined to produce this transformative technology.

Product Details

Author:
Stephanie Ricker Schulte
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
18 March 2013
Dimensions:
23.11 x 16.26 x 2.54 cm
ISBN-10:
0814708668
ISBN-13:
9780814708668
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
272
Weight:
544.31 gm

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