(Re)inventing the internet
Subtitle: critical case studies
By: edited by Andrew Feenberg, Norm Friesen
Publisher: Sense
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Rotterdam; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 135
ISBN-13: 9789460917325; 9789460917332; 9789460917349
Subjects: Social aspects; Gesellschaft; Case studies; Internet
Other titles: Inventing the internet
Description: "Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and role in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. The issues include censorship and network control, privacy and surveillance, the political impact of activist blogging, peer to peer file sharing, the effects of video games on children, and many others. Media conglomerates, government and users all contribute shaping the forms and functions of the Internet as the limits and potentialities of the technologies are tested and extended. What is most surprising about the Internet is the proliferation of controversies and conflicts in which the creativity of ordinary users plays a central role. The title, (Re)Inventing the Internet, refers to this extraordinary flowering of agency in a society that tends to reduce its members to passive spectators. This collection presents a series of critical case studies that examine specific sites of change and contestation. These cover a range of phenomena including computer gaming cultures, online education, surveillance and the mutual shaping of digital technologies and civic life."--Publisher's website.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Preface. Code and communication. Introduction: toward a critical theory of the Internet / Andrew Feenberg; title: Play and school online. Rationalizing play: a critical theory of digital gaming / Sara M Grimes and Andrew Feenberg; title: Alternative rationalisations and ambivalent futures: a critical history of online education / Edward Hamilton and Andrew Feenberg; title: The civic internet. Experiencing surveillance; a phenomenological approach / Norm Friesen, Andrew Feenberg, Grace Smith, and Shannon Lowe; title: Subactivism: lifeworld and politics in the age of the Internet / Maria Bakardjieva; title: Hacking for social justice: the politics of prefigurative technology / Kate Milberry.