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Within the developed world, much of society experiences political, economic, and cultural life through a set of communication technologies barely older than many citizens. Society Online: The Internet in Context examines how new media technologies have not simply diffused across society, but how they have rapidly and deeply become embedded in our organizations and institutions. Society Online is not exclusively devoted to a particular technology, or specifically the Internet, but to a range of technologies and technological possibilities labeled "new media." Rather than trying to cover every possible topic relating to new communication technologies, this unique text is organized by how these new technologies mediate the community, political, economic, personal, and global spheres of our social lives. Editors Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones explore the multiple research methods that are required to understand the embeddedness of new media.
Art versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills
Art versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills
Productopia was one of the first highly visible dot-com companies in the San Francisco Bay Area to close its doors. Soon after, others came toppling down like dominoes. (The tribulations of many of these dot-com companies were chronicled by former employees on http://Fuckedcompany.com.) Web design powerhouses and boutiques announced layoffs. As unemployment rose, San Francisco Bay Area newspapers ran articles about the high number of former dot-com employees who were cluttering neighborhood cafés and nursing single lattes for hours while working on their resumés. As what Americans saw as the “irrational exuberance” of the dot-com boom sputtered out, many Bay Area ...
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