Outer Space and the Home/Personal Computer
The history of the personal computer revolution has several myths. Some of them focus on individual geniuses (hackers, nerds, or hippies), others on single mach...
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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...
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...
Understanding Globalization
Talking about globalization is certainly a common place nowadays. Everybody uses that word, from scholars to marketers, from politicians to journalists. It has ...