Control and freedom
Subtitle: power and paranoia in the age of fiber optics
By: by Wendy Hui-Kyong Chun.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Ma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Optical communications.; Fiber optics.; Technology and civilization.
Description: Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political & technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. She argues that the parallel myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.