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Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community

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Description for Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: UBJ; UDB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 27. Weight in Grams: 599.

How has the Internet been changing our lives, and how did these changes come about? Nathan Newman seeks the answers to these questions by studying the emergence of the Internet economy in Silicon Valley and the transformation of power relations it has brought about in our new information age. Net Loss is his effort to understand why technological innovation and growth have been accompanied by increasing economic inequality and a sense of political powerlessness among large sectors of the population.

Newman first tells the story of the federal government’s crucial role in the early development of the Internet, with the ... Read more

The rise of global Internet commerce itself contributes to weakening the tax base of local governments, even as these governments increasingly use networked technology to market themselves and their citizens to global business, usually at the expense of all but their most elite residents. More optimistically, Newman sees an emerging countertrend of global use of the Internet by grassroots organizations, such as those in the antiglobalization movements, that may help to transcend this local powerlessness.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Pennsylvania State University Press United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
Number of Pages
416
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780271022055
SKU
V9780271022055
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About Nathan Newman
Nathan Newman is currently a union lawyer in New York City and has been a frequent writer on technology issues in such publications as MIT's Technology Review, Progressive Populist, and The American Prospect. A political activist and former union organizer, he was also the project director at NetAction, a consumer technology advocacy group.

Reviews for Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community
“Nathan Newman has written a fascinating history of the Silicon Valley that chronicles the federal government’s leading role in creating, and then privatizing, the Internet. Net Loss not only dispels the myth that the Internet emerged full-blown as a result of entrepreneurial risk in a competitive marketplace, but also explains in depth how forces of globalization have undermined regional economies ... Read more

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