Research Catalog

Title

A new theory of information and the Internet : public sphere meets protocol / Mark Balnaves, Michele Willson.

Author

Balnaves, Mark

Publication

New York : Peter Lang, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

Willson, Michele A., 1964-

Description

iii, 200 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The internet is a complex environment that affronts many practices while constraining others. The challenge is to develop language and tools to critically engage with these environments and to navigate the topology of being a citizen in a technologically mediated environment. This book begins this undertaking." -- Back Cover

Series Statement

Digital formations ; v. 66

Uniform Title

Digital formations v. 66.

Subject

• User interfaces (Computer systems)
• Internet searching
• Computer network resources > Public opinion
• User-Computer Interface

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Information and its reality (Definitions, discipline and dichotomies) -- Networks and relevance (Intention, knowledge representation and the theoretical index of mind) -- The informed citizen (Haberma's Theory of Information) -- Protocol and Machinic infrastructure (Interface, time, place, and space) -- Trading spaces (From knitters and skinners to aggregators) -- Collaborative rules (Activism, c2c and the gift economy) -- Conclusion.

ISBN

• 9781433110627 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1433110628 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 9781433110634 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1433110636 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2011008412

OCLC

705568286

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library