The net effect : romanticism, capitalism, and the internet /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Streeter, Thomas
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York : New York University Press, [2011]
Series:	Critical cultural communication.
Subjects:	Internet > Social aspects. Information technology > Social aspects. Computers > Social aspects. Computers and civilization. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

"Self-motivating exhilaration": on the cultural sources of computer communication
Romanticism and the machine: the formation of the computer counterculture
Missing the net: the 1980s, microcomputers, and the rise of neoliberalism
Networks and the social imagination
The moment of wired
Open source, the expressive programmer, and the problem of property
Conclusion: capitalism, passions, democracy.