(RE)INVENTING THE INTERNET -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE: The Internet, as Though Agency Mattered -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- I. CODE AND COMMUNICATION -- INTRODUCTION: Toward a Critical Theory of the Internet -- HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- TECHNOLOGY IN FLUX -- THREE MODELS -- The Information Model -- The consumption model -- The community model -- THE POLITICAL INTERNET -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- II. PLAY AND SCHOOL ONLINE -- RATIONALIZING PLAY: A Critical Theory of Digital Gaming -- INTRODUCTION -- GAMES AS SYSTEMS OF SOCIAL RATIONALITY -- FROM RULES TO LUDIFICATION -- CASE STUDY: LUDIFICATION IN WORLD OF WARCRAFT -- Reflexivity -- Boundedness -- Rule-Governedness -- Precision -- Playfulness -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- ALTERNATIVE RATIONALISATIONS AND AMBIVALENT FUTURES: A Critical History of Online Education -- THE QUESTION OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY -- A DETERMINISTIC POLITICS OF ONLINE EDUCATION -- COMPUTERISATION AND COMMODIFICATION - THE CASE OF CAI -- FROM COMMODIFICATION TO COMMUNICATION: COMPUTER CONFERENCING AT WBSI -- A REVISED POLITICS OF ONLINE EDUCATION -- QUESTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY -- CONCLUSION: POLICY AND DESIGN -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- III. THE CIVIC INTERNET -- EXPERIENCING SURVEILLANCE: A Phenomenological Approach -- INTRODUCTION: PHENOMENOLOGY AND SURVEILLANCE STUDIES1 -- SARTRE'S "THE LOOK" -- THE BANK MACHINE -- EXTENDED CORPOREAL TRACES AND PROXIMITY -- SUBJECTIVITY AND SURVEILLANCE STUDIES -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SUBACTIVISM: Lifeworld and Politics in the Age of the Internet -- INTRODUCTION -- MODELS OF CITIZENSHIP -- IDENTITY AND SUBJECT POSITIONS -- THE POLITICAL: AN EXPANDING DOMAIN -- THE INTERNET AND SUBACTIVISM -- Methodology -- What Is Civic Participation? -- Personal, Political, or In-Between: Spotting Subactivism in the Quotidian -- Submerged Activism: Engaging the Political Interpersonally.

A Matter of Reach: Political Participation from the Living Room -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES. -- HACKING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE: The Politics of Prefigurative Technology -- INTRODUCTION -- INVENTING THE INTERNET -- THE TECHNICAL CODE OF THE INTERNET -- TECHNOLOGY AS A 'SCENE OF STRUGGLE' -- THE MICROPOLITICS OF RESISTANCE -- TECH ACTIVISM'S RADICAL ROOTS -- FREE SOFTWARE VS. OPEN SOURCE -- SECOND WAVE TECH ACTIVISM: REPOLITICIZING TECHNOLOGY -- THE BIRTH OF INDYMEDIA -- WILD WILD WIKIS: THE LATEST FRONTIER -- FROM TWIKI TO FOSWIKI: THE EVOLUTION OF A WIKI -- THE EMANCIPATORY POWER OF WIKIS? -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.