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.
Author(s): Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland
Series: Routledge Media And Cultural Studies Companions
Publisher: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 547
Tags: Internet History, Global Internet Histories
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
