A History of the Internet and the Digital Future.
Title:
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future.
Author:
Ryan, Johnny.
ISBN:
9781861898357
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
1 online resource (250 pages)
Contents:
History of the Internet -- Imprint page -- Contents -- Preface: The Great Adjustment -- Distributed Network, Centrifugal Ideas -- 1. A Concept Born in the Shadow of the Nuke -- 2. The Military Experiment -- 3. The Essence of the Internet -- 4. Computers Become Cheap, Fast and Common -- Expansion -- 5. The Hoi Polloi Connect -- 6. Communities Based on Interest, Not Proximity -- 7. From Military Networks to the Global Internet -- 8. The Web! -- 9. A Platform for Trade and the Pitfalls of the Dot-com -- The Emerging Environment -- 10. Web 2.0 and the Return to the Oral Tradition -- 11. New Audiences, the Fourth Wall and Extruded Media -- 12. Two-way Politics -- 13. Promise and Peril -- Glossary -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Abstract:
A History of the Internet and the Digital Future tells the story of the development of the Internet from the 1950s to the present and examines how the balance of power has shifted between the individual and the state in the areas of censorship, copyright infringement, intellectual freedom, and terrorism and warfare. Johnny Ryan explains how the Internet has revolutionized political campaigns; how the development of the World Wide Web enfranchised a new online population of assertive, niche consumers; and how the dot-com bust taught smarter firms to capitalize on the power of digital artisans. From the government-controlled systems of the Cold War to today's move towards cloud computing, user-driven content, and the new global commons, this book reveals the trends that are shaping the businesses, politics, and media of the digital future.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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