Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories

Name: Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

The Routledge Companion to Global Internet HistoriesAuthor(s): Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138812161, 978-1138812161\nSynopsis\nThe Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse Internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the Internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and formulation of its histories outside of an anglophone framework is still very much in its infancy. From Tunisia to Taiwan, this volume emphasizes the importance of understanding and formulating Internet histories outside of the anglophone case studies and theoretical paradigms that have thus far dominated academic scholarship on Internet history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the collection offers a variety of historical lenses on the development of the Internet: as a new communicati.