The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet: Virtual Utopias and Dystopias

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Synopsis
Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity.
Copyright:
2014

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781137436702
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan
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Copyrighted By:
Springer
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Politics and Government, Sociology
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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