Children Culture, Software, and the Home Computer (Part 2)
Children-Computer Symbiosis and the Reinvention of Childhood Since the 1950s, researchers in the fields of artificial intelligence, cybernetics, and computer sc...
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Book review : The Victorian Internet
The Victorian Internet: The Remarkable Story of the Telegraph and the Nineteenth Century’s On-Line Pioneers By Tom Standage. New York : Walker and Co., 19...
Streams of Now: Twitter’s Real-Time Conversational Environment and the Network Society
“Diffuse with the speed of thought, a knowledge of all that is occurring throughout the land” (Samuel Morse, 1938) In January 27 of 2006, after 155 ...
Power, cultural industries, and popular culture
The relationship between power and culture is at the core of several sociological and communication studies. In order to understand how mass modern societies st...
Updating Habermas’ Public Sphere
The seminal idea of the public sphere introduced by Habermas in 1962 has remained popular until today because it is very useful both for legitimizing, and also ...
Diffusion of netbooks in the U.S.A
Netbooks are a kind of personal computers characterized by a small size, low weight, low power consumption, and low cost. They are diskless, use inexpensive com...