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Description: Misunderstanding the Internet, Hardcover by Curran, James; Fenton, Natalie; Freedman, Des, ISBN 1138906204, ISBN-13 9781138906204, Like New Used, Free P&P in the UK The growth of the internet has been spectacular. There are now more than 3 billion internet users across the globe, some 40 per cent of the world’s population. The internet’s meteoric rise is a phenomenon of enormous significance for the economic, political and social life of contemporary societies. However, much popular and academic writing about the internet continues to take a celebratory view, assuming that the internet’s potential will be realised in essentially positive and transformative ways. This was especially true in the euphoric moment of the mid-1990s, when many commentators wrote about the internet with awe and wonderment. While this moment may be over, its underlying technocentrism – the belief that technology determines outcomes – lingers on and, with it, a failure to understand the internet in its social, economic and political contexts. Misunderstanding the Internet is a short introduction, encompassing the history, sociology, politics and economics of the internet and its impact on society. This expanded and updated second edition is a polemical, sociologically and historically informed guide to the key claims that have been made about the online world. It aims to challenge both popular myths and existing academic orthodoxies that surround the internet.

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Book Title: Misunderstanding the Internet

Number of Pages: 224 Pages

Publication Name: Misunderstanding the Internet

Language: English

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LTD

Item Height: 234 mm

Subject: Computer Science

Publication Year: 2016

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 499 g

Author: Des Freedman, Natalie Fenton, James Curran

Item Width: 156 mm

Series: Communication and Society

Format: Hardcover

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