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The Cultural Imaginary of the Internet

Virtual Utopias and Dystopias
By:M. Yar
Publisher:Springer Nature
Print ISBN:9781137436689
eText ISBN:9781137436696
Edition:0
Copyright:2014
Format:Reflowable

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Contemporary culture offer contradictory views of the internet and new media technologies, painting them in extremes of optimistic enthusiasm and pessimistic concern. This book explores such representations, uncovering the roots of our cultural responses to the internet, centred upon a profoundly ambivalent reaction to technological modernity.