Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 162 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jordan, Tim, 1959- Internet, society, and culture
DDC:
302.23/1
Keywords:
Internet Social aspects
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Communication Data processing
;
Information society
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Media Studies
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Communication ; Data processing
;
Information society
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Internet ; Social aspects
Abstract:
Before and after the Internet -- Communicative practices -- Letters : pre-Internet communicative practices -- Virtual worlds : internet communicative practices -- Internet, society and culture : anxiety and style -- Signature : flow and object.
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
URL:
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781628928099?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections
