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Understanding the Internet

Understanding the Internet

Bridgette Wessels

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Bloomsbury Publishing plc
Año de edición:
2009
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Cultura popular
ISBN:
9780230517332

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The internet is an everyday part of our contemporary lives. This book explores how it is shaped and embedded within society, fostering new social worlds and ways of talking. Using a wide range of examples to examine economic, political and cultural issues, this book is crucial reading for all those studying society, media and technology.

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