Internet: An Ethnographic Approach互联网

分類: 图书,进口原版书,计算机 Computers & Internet ,
作者: Daniel Miller著
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出版时间: 2001-7-1字数:版次: 1页数: 217印刷时间: 2001/07/01开本: 16开印次: 1纸张: 胶版纸I S B N : 9781859733899包装: 平装内容简介
An examination of Internet culture and consumption. The Internet is increasingly shaping, and being shaped by, users' lives. From cybercafes to businesses, from middle class houses to squatters settlements, the authors have gathered material on subjects as varied as personal relations, commerce, sex and religion. Websites are also analyzed as new cultural formations acting as aesthetic traps. At every point, email chat and surfing are found to be exploited in ways that bring out both unforeseen attributes of the Internet and the contradictions of modern life. The material, taken from ethnographic work in Trinidad, adds depth to earlier discussions about the Internet as an expansion of space, the changes it effects to time and personhood, and the new political economy of the information age. A tie-in with the book's own website provides further illustrations.
目录
Acknowledgements
1 Conclusions
2 Trinidad and the Internet - An Overview
3 Relationships
4 Being Trini and Representing Trinidad
5 The Political Economy of the Internet
6 Doing Business Online
7 Religion
Appendix: The House-to-House Survey
Glossary of Terms
Bibliography
Index