After English, Japanese is the most widely used language on the Internet. This is the first book to analyze the different applications and uses of the Internet in Japan. Introductory chapters focus on ... more

Description: My First Recession starts when the party is over. This study maps the transition of critical Internet culture from the mid-to-late 1990s Internet craze to the dotcom crash, the subsequent ... more

A "must" for web history enthusiasts & cyber buffs.
Thomas Bleier and Eric Steinert’s Net.People covers the personalities behind the web sites, from how ideas are translated into Web sites to problems of webmastering and how individuals succeeded in ... more

Smart Mobs takes us on a journey around the world for a preview of the next techno-cultural shift. The coming wave, says Rheingold, is the result of super-efficient mobile communications-cellular phones, ...

"These editors have the respect, visibility, and track-record to make this volume a contribution to the field of Internet studies. It will be adopted as an upper-division text and can also serve as a ... more

The Internet, and all the netcentric innovations that emerge from it, have transformed the workplace and our working lives in a very short time. The net added a window to the world on worker’s desks, ... more

How is knowledge produced and used in cyberspace? David Hakken--a key figure in the anthropology of science and technology studies-approaches the study of cyberculture through the venue of knowledge production, ... more

Surfing The Net Effect
At a time when how-to-do-it books on computing spawn in a seemingly endless stream, Beth Porter has written an intelligent, highly readable book that has little to do with the how and a great deal to ... more

Combining the aesthetic and the technical, this sourcebook provides the fastest methods of reaching thousands of people with your portfolio of digital images. Photographers and designers who have published ...

The World Wide Web is the most well-known, celebrated, and promoted contemporary manifestation of "cyberspace." To date, however, most of the public discourse on the Web falls into the category of explanatory ... more