The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions)

The Routledge Companion To Global Internet Histories Brings Together Research On The Diverse Internet Histories That Have Evolved In Different Regions, Language Cultures And Social Contexts Across The Globe. While The Internet Is Now In Its Fifth Decade, The Understanding And Formulation Of Its Histories Outside Of An Anglophone Framework Is Still Very Much In Its Infancy. From Tunisia To Taiwan, This Volume Emphasizes The Importance Of Understanding And Formulating Internet Histories Outside Of The Anglophone Case Studies And Theoretical Paradigms That Have Thus Far Dominated Academic Scholarship On Internet History. Interdisciplinary In Scope, The Collection Offers A Variety Of Historical Lenses On The Development Of The Internet: As A New Communication Technology Seen In The Context Of Older Technologies; As A New Form Of Sociality Read Alongside Previous Technologically Mediated Means Of Relating; And As A New Media Vehicle For The Communication Of Content.-- Edited By Gerard Goggin And Mark Mclelland. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Table of Contents......Page 6 List of Figures and Tables......Page 10 Notes on Contributors......Page 12 Acknowledgements......Page 22 Introduction: Global Coordinates of Internet Histories......Page 24 Part 1 Framing Concepts and Approaches......Page 44 1 Imaginaries, Values, and Trajectories: A Critical Reflection on the Internet......Page 46 2 What’s “Culture” Got to Do with It? A (Personal) Review of CATaC (Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication), 1998–2014......Page 57 3 The State of the Internets: Notes for a New Historiography of Technosociality......Page 72 4 Probing a Nation’s Web Domain: A New Approach to Web History and a New Kind of Historical Source......Page 84 Part 2 Rethinking Internet Evolution......Page 98 5 From the Minitel to the Internet: The Path to Digital Literacy and Network Culture in France (1980s–1990s)......Page 100 6 The Emergence of the Internet Service Provider (ISP) Industry in Israel......Page 113 7 The Evolution of the Internet in Mexico (1986–2016)......Page 128 8 The Social Shaping of the Brazilian Internet: Historicizing the Interactions Between States, Corporations, and NGOs in Information and Communication Technology Development and Diffusion......Page 145 9 The History of the Internet in Estonia and Poland......Page 158 Part 3 Early Computer Networks, Technology, and Culture......Page 174 10 Mapping a French Internet Experience: A Decade of Unix Networks Cooperation (1983–1993)......Page 176 11 Early Computer Networks in Japan, 1984–1994......Page 194 12 A Brief History of the Taiwanese Internet: The BBS Culture......Page 205 13 H-mail and the Early Configuration of Online User Culture in Korea......Page 220 14 Hi! Turkiye and Turkish BBS and Digital Cultures......Page 232 Part 4 Imagining Community via the Internet......Page 248 15 Rethinking Arabic Linguistics: The History of the Internet in the Arabic-Speaking Region and the Rise of e-Arabic......Page 250 16 Social Imaginaries of the Internet in China......Page 267 17 “Porn Shock for Dons” (and Other Stories from Welsh Pre-Web History)......Page 279 18 Gross National Happiness and Facebook: Bhutan Localizes the Internet......Page 292 19 Land of the Disconnected: A History of the Internet in Papua New Guinea......Page 307 20 Mobile Communication in Myanmar......Page 319 Part 5 Histories of Social Internets......Page 334 21 Talking about Ourselves on the Japanese Digital Network......Page 336 22 Histories of Blogging......Page 354 23 Survival of the Most Flexible? National Social Media Services in Global Competition: The Finnish Case......Page 366 24 Towards the Social and Mobile: The Development of the Mobile Internet in China and Japan......Page 380 25 Platforms, Practices, and Politics: A Snapshot of Networked Fan Communities in China......Page 393 Part 6 Internets and New Media Forms......Page 408 26 Online Advertising......Page 410 27 Contexts, Prospects, and Contradictions: Histories of Internet-Based Digital Journalism Research in Africa......Page 422 28 Cellphone and Internet Novels: How Digital Literature Changed Print Books in Japan......Page 435 29 Where the Stakes are Higher: Transnational Labor and Digital Gambling Media......Page 448 30 The Emergence of Vernacular Digital Music Cultures......Page 459 31 Histories of Internet Games and Play: Space, Technique, and Modality......Page 471 Part 7 Publics, Politics, and Digital Societies......Page 484 32 Digital Media and Socio-Political Change in the Arab Region......Page 486 33 Indonesia’s Internet Blueprint: Shifting Experience in Media Culture......Page 502 34 Histories of the Internet and Political Communication in Lusophone Africa......Page 513 35 Amplifying Cyberactions: A Short History of e-Resistance in South Korea......Page 528 36 From Yulun (Public Opinion) to Yuqing (Public Intelligence): Their History and Practice in China’s Information Management......Page 539 Index......Page 552 "The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on the diverse internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and formulation of its histories outside of an Anglophone framework is still very much in its infancy. From Tunisia to Taiwan, this volume emphasizes the importance of understanding and formulating internet histories outside of the Anglophone case studies and theoretical paradigms that have thus far dominated academic scholarship on internet history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the collection offers a variety of historical lenses on the development of the internet: as a new communication technology seen in the context of older technologies; as a new form of sociality read alongside previous technologically mediated means of relating; and as a new media "vehicle" for the communication of content."-- Provided by publisher