LEADER 03886nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910826203403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8147-4117-7 010 $a0-8147-0874-9 024 7 $a10.18574/9780814708743 035 $a(CKB)2670000000299544 035 $a(EBL)865340 035 $a(OCoLC)819603203 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000423893 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11310406 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000423893 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10470553 035 $a(PQKB)11441232 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001326177 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC865340 035 $a(OCoLC)692204519 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4815 035 $a(DE-B1597)548603 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814708743 035 $a(DE-B1597)679301 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780814741177 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000299544 100 $a20100628d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|un|u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe net effect $eromanticism, capitalism, and the internet /$fThomas Streeter 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cNew York University Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (232 p.) 225 1 $aCritical cultural communication 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-8147-4116-9 311 0 $a0-8147-4115-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction --$t1. ?Self-Motivating Exhilaration? --$t2. Romanticism and the Machine --$t3. Missing the Net --$t4. Networks and the Social Imagination --$t5. The Moment of Wired --$t6. Open Source, the Expressive Programmer, and the Problem of Property --$tConclusion --$tNotes --$tIndex --$tAbout the Author 330 $aThis book about America's romance with computer communication looks at the internet, not as harbinger of the future or the next big thing, but as an expression of the times. Streeter demonstrates that our ideas about what connected computers are for have been in constant flux since their invention. In the 1950's they were imagined as the means for fighting nuclear wars, in the 1960's as systems for bringing mathematical certainty to the messy complexity of social life, in the 1970's as countercultural playgrounds, in the 1980's as an icon for what's good about free markets, in the 1990's as a new frontier to be conquered and, by the late 1990's, as the transcendence of markets in an anarchist open source utopia. The Net Effect teases out how culture has influenced the construction of the internet and how the structure of the internet has played a role in cultures of social and political thought. It argues that the internet's real and imagined anarchic qualities are not a product of the technology alone, but of the historical peculiarities of how it emerged and was embraced. Finding several different traditions at work in the development of the internet?most uniquely, romanticism?Streeter demonstrates how the creation of technology is shot through with profoundly cultural forces?with the deep weight of the remembered past, and the pressures of shared passions made articulate. 410 0$aCritical cultural communication. 606 $aComputers and civilization 606 $aComputers$xSocial aspects 606 $aInformation technology$xSocial aspects 606 $aInternet$xSocial aspects 615 0$aComputers and civilization. 615 0$aComputers$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aInformation technology$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aInternet$xSocial aspects. 676 $a303.48/33 700 $aStreeter$b Thomas$0140855 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826203403321 996 $aThe Net Effect$93937449 997 $aUNINA