Unspun: Key Concepts for Understanding the World Wide Web
- List Price: $60.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: New York University Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
Intended for readers new to studying the Internet, each chapter in Unspun addresses a different aspect of the "web revolution" -- hypertext, multimedia, authorship, community, governance, identity, gender, race, cyberspace, political economy, and ideology -- as it shapes and is shaped by economic, political, social, and cultural forces. The contributors particularly focus on the language of the Web, exploring concepts that are still emerging and therefore unstable and in flux. Unspun demonstrates how the tacit assumptions behind this rhetoric must be examined if we want to really know what we are saying when we talk about the Web.
Unspun will help readers more fully understand and become critically aware of the issues involved in living, as we do, in a wired society.
