"Singing the Strong Light Works of [American] Engineers": Popular Histories of the Internet as Mythopoetic Literature.
During the 1990s, when the Internet became a common communication medium in the United States, its history was recounted in numerousworks that were intended for popular American audiences. In the context of the new legitimizing discourse of the technopolitical order of post-Fordist society, which vi...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 160 - 181 |
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University of Texas Press
2015
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