The Internet and social change / by Carla G. Surratt.

"Starting with only four hosts in 1969, the Internet consisted of over 105 million hosts by the end of 2000. In 1993, the World Wide Web was only 130 sites strong; seven years later it boasted more than one billion sites. Despite this explosive growth of the Internet and computer technology, li...

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Main Author: Surratt, Carla G.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, ©2001.
©2001.
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Table of Contents:
  • Communications Technologies: A Chronicle of Knowledge
  • Netropolis: The Internet as City in Virtual Society
  • The Nation-State in the Virtual World
  • The Corporation in the Virtual World
  • Church, University and Family in the Virtual World
  • The Self in the Virtual World
  • Virtualization and Net Logic: Concluding Remarks.