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Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics
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by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
Sales Rank: 447697
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List Price: $38.00
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Hardcover: 364 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press January 1, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262033321
ISBN-13: 978-0262033329
Product Dimensions:
9.5 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
Customer Reviews & Comments
This theoretically-savvy but nonetheless highly readable book makes a provocative and vital intervention in the field of internet studies. In an engaging romp through topics as diverse as cyberporn, cyberpunk, wecams, globalization, race, TV commercials, TCP/IP, and Schreber's turn-of-the-century delusions, the author argues compellingly that our freedom depends on moving beyond rhetorics of the internet as democratic and/or dangerous. It's a sharp and often stunning analysis that lays bare the ideological stakes of such notions as user-friendliness, protecting children, and techno-Orientalism -- a must-read for anyone interested in media archaeology or cyber-politics.
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