
- 256 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Setting out a history of cyberspace and its relationship with the discipline that was to become digital humanities, this book is an account of an often-forgotten period of internet history in the 1990s when this medium was in its infancy. It provides a detailed account of the concepts of 'cyberspace' and the 'virtual', which were characteristic of a perception that using the internet allowed users to enter a separate space from everyday life- a world elsewhere. In doing so, it argues that this libertarian idea of the internet framed it as a new frontier, where the rules of the everyday world did not and should not apply, and where the individual could find freedom. These early norms and the regrettable lack of regulation that was a consequence of them, this book argues, contributed to many of current issues with internet media. including of toxic communication, disinformation and over-commercialisation
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Series Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Chapter 1 Introduction: There Is a World Elsewhere …
- Chapter 2 A Consensual Hallucination: Imagining Cyberspace
- Chapter 3 Virtual Communities: Cyberspace before the Web
- Chapter 4 Wired Women: From a Bird on the List to a Rape in Cyberspace
- Chapter 5 A Design for Life: Building Digital Identity on the World Wide Web
- Chapter 6 The Triumph of Virtuality
- Chapter 7 Ceci Tuera Cela: Digital Textuality and the Death of the Book
- Chapter 8 Wired Libertarians: Freedom and the Electronic Frontier
- Chapter 9 ‘Not Welcome Among Us’: Democracy and the Governance of Cyberspace
- Chapter 10 Conclusion: The Reality of Cyberspace
- Bibliography
- Index
- Copyright Page