A sociological interpretation of the collective vision that shaped the origins and evolution of the Internet from the 1990s to the present day analyzes the founding myths of cyberculture, the visions of a technical utopia that informed a technological program, design experiments, virtual reality, an[...]

Patrice Flichy offers a profound analysis of the social shaping and impact of the major communication technologies of the last 200 years. From the semaphore and telegraph to contemporary information technologies, Dynamics of Modern Communication focuses on the relationship between technological and[...]