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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Code and Communication
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Play and School Online
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The Civic Internet
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About this book
Although it has been in existence for over three decades, the Internet remains a contested technology. Its governance and role in civic life, education, and entertainment are all still openly disputed and debated. The issues include censorship and network control, privacy and surveillance, the political impact of activist blogging, peer to peer file sharing, the effects of video games on children, and many others. Media conglomerates, governments and users all contribute to shaping the forms and functions of the Internet as the limits and potentialities of the technologies are tested and extended. What is most surprising about the Internet is the proliferation of controversies and conflicts in which the creativity of ordinary users plays a central role. The title, (Re)Inventing the Internet, refers to this extraordinary flowering of agency in a society that tends to reduce its members to passive spectators. This collection presents a series of critical case studies that examine specific sites of change and contestation. These cover a range of phenomena including computer gaming cultures, online education, surveillance, and the mutual shaping of digital technologies and civic life.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (Re)Inventing the Internet
Editors: Andrew Feenberg, Norm Friesen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-734-9
Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: SensePublishers 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-94-6091-734-9Published: 24 March 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 135
Topics: Education, general
