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9780814797594: Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web
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ISBN 10: 0814797598 ISBN 13: 9780814797594
Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2001

Sinossi

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The World Wide Web has cut a wide path through our daily lives. As claims of "the Web changes everything" suffuse print media, television, movies, and even presidential campaign speeches, just how thoroughly do the users immersed in this new technology understand it? What, exactly, is the Web changing? And how might we participate in or even direct Web-related change?

Intended for readers new to studying the Internet, each chapter in Unspun addresses a different aspect of the "web revolution"--hypertext, multimedia, authorship, community, governance, identity, gender, race, cyberspace, political economy, and ideology--as it shapes and is shaped by economic, political, social, and cultural forces. The contributors particularly focus on the language of the Web, exploring concepts that are still emerging and therefore unstable and in flux. Unspun demonstrates how the tacit assumptions behind this rhetoric must be examined if we want to really know what we are saying when we talk about the Web.

Unspun will help readers more fully understand and become critically aware of the issues involved in living, as we do, in a wired society.

Contributors include: Jay Bolter, Sean Cubitt, Jodi Dean, Dawn Dietrich, Cynthia Fuchs, Matthew Kirschenbaum, Timothy Luke, Vincent Mosco, Lisa Nakamura, Russell Potter, Rob Shields, John Sloop, and Joseph Tabbi.

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L'autore

Thomas Swiss is Center for the Humanities Professor of English and Director of the Web-Assisted Curriculum at Drake University. He is coauthor of The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory: Magic, Metaphor, Power.

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Editore
New York Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2001
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0814797598
ISBN 13 
9780814797594
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
210
Redattore
Swiss Thomas
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Persona responsabile
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ISBN 10:  081479758X ISBN 13:  9780814797587
Casa editrice: New York Univ Pr, 2001
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