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Open Standards and the Digital Age

Open Standards and the Digital Age

Russell, Andrew L.

Hardcover

Series: Cambridge Studies in the Emergence of Global Enterprise

Technology & Engineering20th Century United States History

ISBN10: 1107039193
ISBN13: 9781107039193
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 28 2014
Pages: 326
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In the 1970s and 1980s, however, engineers in the United States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of openness to describe their ideological commitments to entrepreneurship, technological innovation, and participatory democracy. The rhetoric of openness has flourished - for example, in movements for open government, open source software, and open access publishing - but such rhetoric also obscures the ways the Internet and other open systems still depend heavily on hierarchical forms of control.

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