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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Net Effect
    sub title: Romanticism, Capitalism, and the Internet
  name:
    name part: Streeter, Thomas.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Walter de Gruyter & Co
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    publisher: NYU Press
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (232 pages).
  abstract: This book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950s they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960s as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970s as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980s as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990s as a new f.
  table of contents: Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 "Self-Motivating Exhilaration": On the Cultural Sources of Computer Communication; 2 Romanticism and the Machine: The Formation of the Computer Counterculture; 3 Missing the Net: The 1980s, Microcomputers, and the Rise of Neoliberalism; 4 Networks and the Social Imagination; 5 The Moment of Wired; 6 Open Source, the Expressive Programmer, and the Problem of Property; Conclusion: Capitalism, Passions, Democracy; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z; About the Author.
  subject:
    topic: Computers and civilization
  subject:
    topic: Computers
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Ordinateurs et civilisation
  subject:
    topic: Ordinateurs
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Technologie de l'information
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Aspect social
  subject:
    topic: Technology & Engineering
    topic: Telecommunications
  subject:
    topic: Computers and civilization
  subject:
    topic: Computers
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Information technology
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Internet
    topic: Social aspects
  subject:
    topic: Effect.
  subject:
    topic: construction.
  subject:
    topic: culture.
  subject:
    topic: cultures.
  subject:
    topic: influenced.
  subject:
    topic: internet.
  subject:
    topic: played.
  subject:
    topic: political.
  subject:
    topic: role.
  subject:
    topic: social.
  subject:
    topic: structure.
  subject:
    topic: teases.
  subject:
    topic: thought.
  classification: QA76.9 .C66 S884 2011
  classification: 303.48 303.4833
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    origin info:
      publisher: New York : NYU Press, ©2010
  related item:
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  identifier: 9780814708743
  identifier: 0814708749
  identifier: A89016CF-87FD-4B5B-A94D-51838C074C7B OverDrive, Inc.
  identifier: https://www.degruyterbrill.com/openurl
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 121124
    record change date: 20260713191251.9
    record identifier: in00005788007
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng