The Internet myth : from the Internet imaginary to network ideologies / Paolo Bory
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TextPublisher: London : University of Westminster Press, 2020Description: 1 online resource (153 pages) : illustrations (some color), mapsContent type: - text
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- 9781912656769
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : histories, narratives, networks and the Internet
Internet histories, narratives and the rise of the network ideology
The dominant narrative of Internet history
The narratives of the Internet’s origins
The world wide web and the transition of the 1990s
Alter-net histories
Looking for network imaginaries
The ideal-typical network models : centralized, de-centralized, distributed
The material dimensions of networks
The rise of network ideologies
The myth of the world wide web
The birth of the web : a hero’s story
The web’s journey
The biography of the web as a myth-building narrative
Questioning the myth of the web : media imaginaries and web history
Hypertext : the forgotten hero ted nelson
Retracing old media in the world wide web
The web and the network
Rethinking web history
Lost networks : the Socrate and Iperbole projects in Italy
The web was not alone
The Italian networking landscape in the 1990s
Rise and fall of Socrate
The uncertain reasons for the failure
The other network : the internet in Italy
Iperbole : the pioneering Italian civic network project
Conflicting imaginaries : Socrate vs. Iperbole
The ruins of Socrate
Legacy systems
Challenging the network ideologies
Imaginary networks
The transitory propriety of network imaginaries
The power of limits
Beyond networks
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