Prometheus Wired - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prometheus Wired write by Darin Barney. This book was released on 2000-05-01. Prometheus Wired available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From all sides, we hear that computer technology, with its undeniable power to disseminate information and connect individuals, holds enormous potential for a reinvigoration of political life. But will the Internet really spark a democratic revolution? And will the changes it brings be so profound that past political thought will be of little use in helping us to understand them? In Prometheus Wired, Darin Barney debunks claims that a networked society will provide the infrastructure for a political revolution and shows that the resources we need for understanding and making sound judgments about this new technology are surprisingly close at hand. By looking to thinkers who grappled with the relationship of society and technology, such as Plato, Aristotle, Marx, and Heidegger, Barney critically examines such assertions about the character of digital networks. Along the way, Barney offers an eye-opening history of digital networks and then explores a wide range of contemporary issues, such as electronic commerce, telecommuting, privacy, virtual community, digital surveillance, and the possibility of sovereign governance in an age of global networks. Ultimately, Barney argues that instead of placing power back in the hands of the public, a networked economy seems to exacerbate the worst features of industrial capitalism, and, in terms of the surveillance and control it exerts, reduces our political freedom. Of vital interest to politicians, communicators, and anyone concerned about the future of democracy in the digital age, Prometheus Wired adds a provocative new voice to the debate swirling around "the Net" and the ways in which it will, or will not, change our political lives. Prometheus Wired was shortlisted for the 2001-2002 Harold Adams Innis Prize. Click here to view other UBC Press award winners. Selected as a Book for Everybody img src="http://www.ubcpress.ca/images/bfe.jpg"
Prometheus Wired [microform] : the Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology
Prometheus Wired [microform] : the Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prometheus Wired [microform] : the Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology write by Darin David Barney. This book was released on 1998. Prometheus Wired [microform] : the Hope for Democracy in the Age of Network Technology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Blown to Bits
Blown to Bits - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Blown to Bits write by Harold Abelson. This book was released on 2008. Blown to Bits available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 'Blown to Bits' is about how the digital explosion is changing everything. The text explains the technology, why it creates so many surprises and why things often don't work the way we expect them to. It is also about things the information explosion is destroying: old assumptions about who is really in control of our lives.
A Prehistory of the Cloud
A Prehistory of the Cloud - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Prehistory of the Cloud write by Tung-Hui Hu. This book was released on 2015-08-21. A Prehistory of the Cloud available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The militarized legacy of the digital cloud: how the cloud grew out of older network technologies and politics. We may imagine the digital cloud as placeless, mute, ethereal, and unmediated. Yet the reality of the cloud is embodied in thousands of massive data centers, any one of which can use as much electricity as a midsized town. Even all these data centers are only one small part of the cloud. Behind that cloud-shaped icon on our screens is a whole universe of technologies and cultural norms, all working to keep us from noticing their existence. In this book, Tung-Hui Hu examines the gap between the real and the virtual in our understanding of the cloud. Hu shows that the cloud grew out of such older networks as railroad tracks, sewer lines, and television circuits. He describes key moments in the prehistory of the cloud, from the game “Spacewar” as exemplar of time-sharing computers to Cold War bunkers that were later reused as data centers. Countering the popular perception of a new “cloudlike” political power that is dispersed and immaterial, Hu argues that the cloud grafts digital technologies onto older ways of exerting power over a population. But because we invest the cloud with cultural fantasies about security and participation, we fail to recognize its militarized origins and ideology. Moving between the materiality of the technology itself and its cultural rhetoric, Hu's account offers a set of new tools for rethinking the contemporary digital environment.
Dissertation Abstracts International
Dissertation Abstracts International - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dissertation Abstracts International write by . This book was released on 2000. Dissertation Abstracts International available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
