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Internet Pricing and the History of CommunicationsOdlyzko, Andrew January 2000 (has links)
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Verified, Tracked, and Visible: A History of the Configuration of the Internet UserSt. Louis, Christopher 10 April 2018 (has links)
The figure of the user is often overlooked in Internet histories, which frequently focus on larger treatments of infrastructure, governance, or major contributions of specific individuals. This thesis constructs a philosophical and ideological history of the Internet user and examines how that figure has changed though the evolution of the Internet. Beginning with the Web 2.0 paradigm in the early 2000s, a growing state and corporate interest in the Internet produced substantial changes to the structure and logic of the Internet that saw the user being placed increasingly at the periphery of online space as the object of state surveillance or behavioral tracking. The three case studies in this thesis investigate the combination of technological constraints and discursive strategies which have aided in shaping the contemporary user from active architect of the Internet itself to passive, ideal consumer of predetermined online experiences.
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Vznik a vývoj internetového zpravodajství v Česku na příkladu deníku iDnes.cz / Rise and Evolution of Online Journalism in the Czech Republic in Case of Online Daily iDnes.czPavec, Michal January 2009 (has links)
This diploma thesis "Rise and Evolution of Online Journalism in the Czech Republic in Case of Online Daily iDnes.cz" considers an important and interesting period of Czech journalism after 1989. Specifically, it focuses on the origins of online daily iDnes and tries to describe history of Czech internet journalism on this example. The main attention is focusing principally on the first stage of daily's history: stage of planning (nine months in 1997), which is characterised with disbelief of publishing company Mafra and very cautious attitude to the plan, and first two years, which are very unusual for starting a professional medium. The authors of the plan intended from the beginning to work with the specific possibilities of hypertext space of the internet. But they had to count with a low budget and only two editors. Only two months were enough to see that internet daily can act as an independent part of the publishing company. The readers of early Czech internet used to visit the new site and iDnes became the most visited internet daily in 1999. Among others they appreciated use of new journalistic genres specific for internet space. For example: online interview and online report. Daily had also possibility to update texts - react to a progression of a situation. This diploma thesis also...
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The mixed experience of achieving business benefit from the internet : a multi-disciplinary studyAdamson, Greg, g.adamson@ieee.org January 2004 (has links)
From 1995 the Internet attracted commercial investment, but financially measurable benefits and competitive advantage proved elusive. Usage for personal communication and business information only slowly translated into commercial transactions. This reflects a unique feature of Internet development. Unlike other media of the 19th and 20th centuries, widespread Internet use preceded commercial investment. The early military and research use led to an architecture that poorly supported the certainty and security requirements of commercial transactions. Subsequent attempts to align this architecture with commercial transactional requirements were expensive and mostly unsuccessful. This multi-disciplinary thesis describes these commercial factors from historical, usage, technical, regulatory and commercial perspectives. It provides a new and balanced understanding in a subject area dominated by poor communication between separate perspectives.
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The Mundaneum Imaginaries : A Media-Archaeological Study of the "Paper Google" / Det föreställda Mundaneum : en mediearkeologisk studie av ”the paper Google”Sjögren, Lisa January 2014 (has links)
In this two year master’s thesis, using concepts borrowed from media archaeology, I examine the construction, content and function of the alternative historical narrative that is mediated through the partnership between Google and Belgian museum and archives centre the Mundaneum. This alternative narrative presents Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine as having prefigured the Internet and as having created an analogue “paper Google.” Through a close-reading of publicly available material related to the Google/Mundaneum partnership, I examine a set of issues relating to the interplay of dominant and alternative narratives, to the narrative function of realized and imaginary media, and to the implicit messages that this particular narrative mediates. In the study, I find that the examined alternative narrative is constructed both in opposition to and with support from the dominant narrative, and that recognition from international actors is used in order to confirm Europe’s place in Internet history. Furthermore, I note a tendency in the text to confuse and to conflate different media technologies. I argue that this confusion renders the narrative more flexible and dynamic, making it possible to connect the media created by Otlet and La Fontaine to any modern technology. Finally, I find that, by attaching different connotations or “media imaginaries” to the media depicted, the texts are able to present knowledge organization as a medium for peace, the Mundaneum as an important actor in information society, and Google as a company with its roots dug deep in European soil. / I den här masteruppsatsen diskuterar jag, utifrån begrepp lånade från mediearkeologi, det alternativa historiska narrativ som målas fram genom partnerskapet mellan Google och det belgiska museet och arkivet Mundaneum. Narrativet framställer de belgiska bibliograferna Paul Otlet och Henri la Fontaine som föregångare till Internet och uppfinnare till ett ”the paper Google.” Genom en närläsning av öppet tillgängligt material med anknytning till Google/Mundaneum-partnerskapet undersöker jag frågor som rör samspelet mellan dominerande och alternativa narrativ, verkliga och imaginära mediers narrativa funktion, och de implicita budskap som just detta narrativ förmedlar. I studien finner jag att det undersökta alternativa narrativet konstrueras både i motsats till och med stöd från det dominanta narrativet, och att erkännandet från internationella aktörer används för att bekräfta Europas plats i Internets historia.Jag noterar även en tendens i texten att blanda samman olika medieteknologier, och argumenterar för att denna förvirring i sig gör narrativet mer flexibelt och dynamiskt, och därmed gör det möjligt att sammankoppla medier skapade av Otlet och La Fontaine med vilken modern informationsteknologi som helst. Slutligen konstaterar jag att texterna, genom att fästa olika konnotationer eller “media imaginaries” vid de framställda medierna, framställer kunskapsorganisation som ett medium för fred, Mundaneum som en viktig aktör i informationssamhället och Google som ett företag med djupgående rötter i Europa.
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IPv6: Politics of the Next Generation InternetDeNardis, Laura Ellen 05 April 2006 (has links)
IPv6, a new Internet protocol designed to exponentially increase the global availability of Internet addresses, has served as a locus for incendiary international tensions over control of the Internet. Esoteric technical standards such as IPv6, on the surface, appear not socially significant. The technical community selecting IPv6 claimed to have excised sociological considerations from what they considered an objective technical design decision. Far from neutrality, however, the development and adoption of IPv6 intersects with contentious international issues ranging from tensions between the United Nations and the United States, power struggles between international standards authorities, U.S. military objectives, international economic competition, third world development objectives, and the promise of global democratic freedoms. This volume examines IPv6 in three overlapping epochs: the selection of IPv6 within the Internet's standards setting community; the adoption and promotion of IPv6 by various stakeholders; and the history of the administration and distribution of the finite technical resources of Internet addresses. How did IPv6 become the answer to presumed address scarcity? What were the alternatives? Once developed, stakeholders expressed diverse and sometimes contradictory expectations for IPv6. Japan, the European Union, China, India, and Korea declared IPv6 adoption a national priority and an opportunity to become more competitive in an American-dominated Internet economy. IPv6 activists espoused an ideological belief in IPv6, linking the standard with democratization, the eradication of poverty, and other social objectives. The U.S., with ample addresses, adopted a laissez-faire approach to IPv6 with the exception of the Department of Defense, which mandated an upgrade to the new standard to bolster distributed warfare capability. The history of IPv6 includes the history of the distribution of the finite technical resources of "IP addresses," globally unique binary numbers required for devices to exchange information via the Internet. How was influence over IP address allocation and control distributed globally? This history of IPv6 explains what's at stake economically, politically, and technically in the development and adoption of IPv6, suggesting a theoretical nexus between technical standards and politics and arguing that views lauding the Internet standards process for its participatory design approach ascribe unexamined legitimacy to a somewhat closed process. / Ph. D.
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Cyberattacks in international relationsEdelman, Ross David January 2013 (has links)
New methods of conflict and coercion can prompt tectonic shifts in the international system, reconfiguring power, institutions, and norms of state behavior. Cyberattacks, coercive acts that disrupt or destroy the digital infrastructure on which states increasingly rely, have the potential to be such a tool — but only if put into practice. This study examines which forces in the international system might restrain state use of cyberattacks, even when they are militarily advantageous. To do so I place this novel technology in the context of existing international regimes, employing an analogical approach that identifies the salient aspects of cyberattacks, and compares them to prior weapons and tactics that share those attributes. Specifically, this study considers three possible restraints on state behavior: rationalist deterrence, the jus ad bellum regime governing the resort to force, and incompatibility with the jus in bello canon of law defining just conduct in war. First, I demonstrate that cyberattacks frustrate conventional deterrence models, and invite, instead, a novel form of proto-competition I call ‘structural deterrence.’ Recognizing that states have not yet grounded their sweeping claims about the acceptability of cyberattacks in any formal analysis, I consider evidence from other prohibited uses of force or types of weaponry to defining whether cyberattacks are ‘legal’ in peacetime or ‘usable’ in wartime. Whereas previous studies of cyberattacks have focused primarily on policy guidance for a single state or limited analysis of the letter of international law, this study explicitly relates international law to state decision-making and precedent. It draws together previously disparate literature across strategic studies, international law, and diplomatic history to offer conclusions applicable beyond any single technology, and of increasing importance as states’ dependence on technology grows.
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The Art of Perl: How a Scripting Language (inter)Activated the World Wide WebGomez, Norberto, Jr. 17 April 2013 (has links)
In 1987, computer programmer and linguist Larry Wall authored the general-purpose, high-level, interpreted, dynamic Unix scripting language, Perl. Borrowing features from C and awk, Perl was originally intended as a scripting language for text-processing. However, with the rising popularity of the Internet and the advent of Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web (Web), in the 1990s, Perl soon became the glue-language for the Internet, due in large part to its relationship to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and the Common Gateway Interface (CGI). Perl was the go-to language for on the fly program writing and coding, gaining accolades from the likes of publisher Tim O’Reilly and hackers alike. Perl became a favorite language of amateur Web users, whom net artist Olia Lialina calls barbarians, or the indigenous. These users authored everything from database scripts to social spaces like chatrooms and bulletin boards. Perl, while largely ignored today, played a fundamental role in facilitating those social spaces and interactions of Web 1.0, or what I refer to as a Perl-net. Thus, Perl informed today’s more ubiquitous digital culture, referred to as Web 2.0, and the social web. This project examines Perl’s origin which is predicated on postmodern theories, such as deconstructionism and multiculturalism. Perl’s formal features are differentiated from those of others, like Java. In order to defend Perl’s status as an inherently cultural online tool, this project also analyzes many instances of cultural artifacts: script programs, chatrooms, code poetry, webpages, and net art. This cultural analysis is guided by the work of contemporary media archaeologists: Lialina and Dragan Espenschied, Erkki Huhtamo and Jussi Parikka. Lastly, the present state of digital culture is analyzed in an effort to re-consider the Perl scripting language as a relevant, critical computer language, capable of aiding in deprogramming the contemporary user.
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