Dark fiber : tracking critical Internet culture / Geert Lovink

By:

Lovink, Geert

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TextSeries: Electronic culture--history, theory, practicePublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2002Description: xi, 382 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

0262122499 (hc. : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

303.48/33 21

Review: ""In Dark Fiber, Lovink combines aesthetic and ethical concerns and issues of navigation and usability without ever losing sight of the cultural and economic agendas of those who control hardware, software, content, design, and delivery. He examines the unwarranted faith of the cyber-libertarians in the ability of market forces to create a decentralized, accessible communication system. He studies the inner dynamics of hackers' groups, Internet activists, and artists, seeking to understand the social laws of online life. Finally, he calls for the injection of political and economic competence into the community of freedom-loving cyber-citizens, to wrest the Internet from corporate and state control.""

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	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		303.48 LOV					Available			30010713

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Includes bibliographical references (p. ([380]-382)

""In Dark Fiber, Lovink combines aesthetic and ethical concerns and issues of navigation and usability without ever losing sight of the cultural and economic agendas of those who control hardware, software, content, design, and delivery. He examines the unwarranted faith of the cyber-libertarians in the ability of market forces to create a decentralized, accessible communication system. He studies the inner dynamics of hackers' groups, Internet activists, and artists, seeking to understand the social laws of online life. Finally, he calls for the injection of political and economic competence into the community of freedom-loving cyber-citizens, to wrest the Internet from corporate and state control.""