"If You Build It, They Will Come": Lusk, Wyoming, and the Information Highway Imaginaire, 1989-1999.
Historians of the Internet have richly analyzed the overnment and academic origins of networked computing in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the early commercialization of the Internet. This work adds to the available histories by analyzing local Internet policy. This article examines Lusk, Wyoming'...
| Publicado en: | Information & Culture Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 236 - 257 |
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University of Texas Press
2015
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| Sumario: | Historians of the Internet have richly analyzed the overnment and academic origins of networked computing in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the early commercialization of the Internet. This work adds to the available histories by analyzing local Internet policy. This article examines Lusk, Wyoming's development of a fiber-optic network to attract informationrich industries and enter the information age. I employ the concept of Patrice Flichy' information highway imaginaire to highlight how the national discourse around information and communication technologies led Lusk to create its network and how the town's network in turn contributed to the collective vision. |
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