Wiley.com
Print this page Share

Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet

ISBN: 978-0-8186-7706-9
Hardcover
361 pages
May 1997, Wiley-IEEE Computer Society Press
List Price: US $74.75
Government Price: US $51.80
Enter Quantity:   Buy
Netizens: On the History and Impact of Usenet and the Internet (0818677066) cover image
This is a Print-on-Demand title. It will be printed specifically to fill your order. Please allow an additional 10-15 days delivery time. The book is not returnable.

Foreword.

Preface.

Introduction.

PART I. THE PRESENT: WHAT HAS BEEN CREATED AND HOW.

Chapter 1. The Net and Netizens: The Effect the Net Has on People's Lives.

Chapter 2. The Evolution of Usenet: The Poor Man's ARPANET

Chapter 3. The Social Forces Behind the Development of Usenet.

Chapter 4. The World of Usenet.

PART II: THE PAST:WHERE HAS IT ALL COME FROM.

Chapter 5. The Vision of Interactive Computing and the Future.

Chapter 6. Cybernetics, Time-sharing Human-Computer Symbiosis and Online Communities: Creating a Supercommunity of Online Communities.

Chapter 7. Behind the Net: The Untold Story of the ARPANET and Computer Science.

Chapter 8. The Birth and Development of the ARPANET.

Chapter 9. On the Early History and Impact of Unix: Tools to Build the Tools for a New Millennium.

Chapter 10. On the Early Days of Usenet: The Roots of the Cooperative Online Culture.

PART III: AND THE FUTURE?

Chapter 11. The NTIA Conference on the Future of the Net: Creating a Prototype for Democratic Decision-Making Process.

Chapter 12. "Imminent Death of the Net Predicted!"

Chapter 13. The Effect of the Net on the Professional News Media: The Usenet Collective/Man-Computer News Symbiosis.

Chapter 14. The Net and the Future of Politics: The Ascendancy of the Commons.

Chapter 15. Exploring New York City's Online Community: A Snapshot of nyc.general.

PART IV: CONTRIBUTIONS TOWARD DEVELOPING A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK.

Chapter 16. The Expanding Commonwealth of Learning: Printing and the Net.

Chapter 17. 'Arte': An Economic Perspective: The Role of "Arte" in the Production of Social Wealth.

Chapter 18. The Computer as a Democratizer.

Glossary of Acronyms.

References.

Acknowledgments.

Index.
Back to Top