The Internet and Social ChangeMcFarland, 6 de jul. de 2017 - 239 páginas Starting with only four hosts in 1969, the Internet consisted of more than 56 million hosts by the end of 1999. In 1993, the World Wide Web was only 130 sites strong; six years later it boasted more than seven million sites. Despite this explosive growth of the Internet and computer technology, little is known about the social implications of computer mediated communications. In this work, the author uses social science theory to evaluate the social transformations taking place today. She asks whether human beings use the Internet to change basic social institutions, and if so, whether these changes are a matter of degree only or represent an overthrow of previous modes of organizing. The work examines the rise of the Internet as the logical extension of the Industrial Revolution and urbanization consistent with the basic tenets of modernity, and offers a new conceptual framework through which to understand the Internet. |
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... electronic media, a detailed comparison of the technical parameters of the Internet and other media is well beyond its scope. Emphasis is instead placed upon the strong similarities found in the social constructions of these ...
... electronic media, a detailed comparison of the technical parameters of the Internet and other media is well beyond its scope. Emphasis is instead placed upon the strong similarities found in the social constructions of these ...
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... Hastings House Publishers, ¡977). e. Irwin Lebow, Information Highways and Byways (New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ¡995). Part I CHAPTER ONE Communications Technologies: A Chronicle of Knowledge Introduction 9.
... Hastings House Publishers, ¡977). e. Irwin Lebow, Information Highways and Byways (New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, ¡995). Part I CHAPTER ONE Communications Technologies: A Chronicle of Knowledge Introduction 9.
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... electronic communication has witnessed the near-unanimous approval garnered by the telegraph. While all have had their supporters, they have also been met with derision by those who were and are concerned with the individual and social ...
... electronic communication has witnessed the near-unanimous approval garnered by the telegraph. While all have had their supporters, they have also been met with derision by those who were and are concerned with the individual and social ...
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... electronic communication technologies that preceded the Internet. Both of these points will be discussed more fully in the pages that follow. Nevertheless, in support of such claims, many participants with firsthand knowledge of ...
... electronic communication technologies that preceded the Internet. Both of these points will be discussed more fully in the pages that follow. Nevertheless, in support of such claims, many participants with firsthand knowledge of ...
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