Internet, Society and Culture by Tim Jordan - 9781628923483

Tim Jordan

The internet has changed the way we communicate and so changed society and culture. Internet, Society, and Culture offers an understanding of this change by examining two case studies of pre and post internet communication. The first case study is of letters sent to and from Australia in 18351858 and the second is a study of online gaming. In both case studies, the focus is on the ways communication is created. The result is the definition of two types of communication that are lived simultaneously in the twentyfirst century. One type of communication is from before the internet and relies on the body having touched and created a messagefor example, by attaching signatureto stabilise the nature of sender, message and receiver. Internetdependant communication is different because no identitymarker can be trusted on the internet and so individuals styles of communicating are used to stabilise the transmission of messages. Being after the internet means having to live these two contradictory forms of communication. | Tim Jordan Internet, Society & Culture: Communicative Practices Before and