The net effect : romanticism, capitalism, and the internet /
Thomas Streeter.
- New York : New York University Press, c2011.
- ix, 219 p. ; 24 cm.
- Critical cultural communication .
- Critical cultural communication. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-211) and index.
"Self-motivating exhilaration": on the cultural sources of computer communication -- Romanticism and the machine: the formation of the computer counterculture -- Missing the net: the 1980s, microcomputers, and the rise of neoliberalism -- Networks and the social imagination -- The moment of wired -- Open source, the expressive programmer, and the problem of property -- Conclusion: capitalism, passions, democracy.