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The Internet Imaginaire

The Internet Imaginaire

Flichy, Patrice

Paperback

General ComputersGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262562383
ISBN13: 9780262562386
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Oct 1 2008
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.60 Depth: 8.60
Language: English
The collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet: what led software designers, managers, employees, politicians, and individuals to develop and adopt one particular technology.

In The Internet Imaginaire, sociologist Patrice Flichy examines the collective vision that shaped the emergence of the Internet--the social imagination that envisioned a technological utopia in the birth of a new technology. By examining in detail the discourses surrounding the development of the Internet in the United States in the 1990s (and considering them an integral part of that development), Flichy shows how an entire society began a new technological era. The metaphorical information superhighway became a technical utopia that informed a technological program. The Internet imaginaire, Flichy argues, led software designers, businesses, politicians, and individuals to adopt this one technology instead of another.

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