ISBN:
9781441134875
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (171 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Internet, Society and Culture : Communicative Practices Before and After the Internet
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Internet -- Social aspects
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Communication -- Data processing
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Information society
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Internet ; Social aspects..
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Communication ; Data processing..
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Information society
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The internet has changed the way we communicate and so changed society and culture. Internet , Society, and Culture offers an understanding of this change by examining two case studies of pre and post internet communication. The first case study is of letters sent to and from Australia in 1835-1858 and the second is a study of online gaming. In both case studies, the focus is on the ways communication is created. The result is the definition of two types of communication that are lived simultaneously in the twenty-first century. One type of communication is from before the internet and relies
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; HalfTitle; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Before and After the Internet; Introduction; Metaphors and their failures: the metaphor of burglary; Metaphors and their failures: the metaphor of protest; A hypothesis of communicative practice after the internet; Methods: theory, comparison, difference, intensity; 2 Communicative Practices; Introduction; Transmission and the problem of communication; Presence one: Milne, Derrida and self-presence; Presence two: Heidegger, Levinas and face-to-face; Performativity; Matter and communication; A theory of communicative practices
Description / Table of Contents:
3 Letters: Pre-Internet Communicative PracticesIntroduction; Letters to and from Australia: 1835-59; Henry Howard Meyrick: 1823-47; Niel Black: 1804-80; The Port Phillip Association; Conclusion; 4 Virtual Worlds: Internet Communicative Practices; Introduction; Communicative practices in persistent virtual worlds; Nyd-Mid-Pryd; Nydian communicative practices and AS communicative practices; Styles and styles; 5 Internet, Society and Culture: Anxiety and Style; Two stories: Julie and Amina; Style and body; Anxiety; Care of the communicating self; Really?!; 6 Signature: Flow and Object
Description / Table of Contents:
Communication changeSignature; Bibliography; Index
Note:
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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