LEADER 03956oam 2200673Ka 450 001 9910901897203321 005 20240219145454.0 010 $a9780262033329 010 $a9780262288583 (e-book) 035 $a(CKB)2670000000263657 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000937633 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11473704 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000937633 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10876761 035 $a(PQKB)10618362 035 $a(CaBNVSL)mat06267475 035 $a(IDAMS)0b000064818b44cd 035 $a(IEEE)6267475 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00065721 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5966551 035 $a(OCoLC)827013120 035 $a(OCoLC-P)827013120 035 $a(MaCbMITP)2150 035 $a(PPN)259324337 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000263657 100 $a20130208d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aControl and freedom $epower and paranoia in the age of fiber optics /$fWendy Hui Kyong Chun 210 $aCambridge, Mass. $cMIT Press$dİ2006 215 $a1 PDF (x, 352 pages) $cillustrations 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-262-03332-1 311 $a0-262-28858-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [303]-326) and index. 330 1 $a"How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones." 330 8 $a"Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. 330 8 $aChun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace." 330 8 $a"The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks - light coursing through glass tubes - as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment."--Jacket. 606 $aOptical communications 606 $aFiber optics 606 $aTechnology and civilization 610 $aDIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/New Media Theory 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies 610 $aSOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/General 615 0$aOptical communications. 615 0$aFiber optics. 615 0$aTechnology and civilization. 676 $a303.48/33 700 $aChun$b Wendy Hui Kyong$f1969-$01094196 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910901897203321 996 $aControl and freedom$94273474 997 $aUNINA