Virtual Nation: The Internet in AustraliaGerard Goggin The Internet is used by millions of Australians every day, but what do we really know about this exordinary phenomenon? How did the Internet develop in Australia? What have been the distinctive Australian contexts shaping the Internet? And what have been its implications for Australian culature and society?The first comprehensive book that digs beneath the surface of the Internet in Australia. Moving beyond the 'how to' books, Virtual Nation offers a surprising, thought-provoking, and rigorous introduction to a technology that we now can't do without. Featuring leading experts on topics spanning history, use, culture, policy, and future, Virtual Nation is indispensable for students, researchers, teachers, policymakers, technologists, and anyone interested in how digital technologies are transforming our lives The final chapter of the book invites readers to engage in a virtual round table--an online blogging network steered by contributors to the text, and literally putting the theory into practice. |
Contents
User guide | 1 |
Antipodean Internet Placing Australian networks | 2 |
An Internet primer Technology and governance | 13 |
History | 29 |
The emergence of the Internet in Australia From researchers tool to public infrastructure | 30 |
The Pegasus story A pioneering Internet venture | 44 |
Net acceleration The advent of everyday Internet | 55 |
Use | 71 |
Cyphers of the virtual Australian Net art and the metaphysics of telepresence | 146 |
Digital dreaming Indigenous intellectual property and new communication technologies | 159 |
Reconfiguring journalism Syndication gatewatching and multiperspectival news | 177 |
Net worth The unlikely rise of ABC Online | 193 |
Policy | 209 |
Evolutionary constitutionalism Australian law and the Internet | 211 |
Domesticating the Internet Content regulation virtual nationbuilding and the family | 229 |
Park life The commons and communications policy | 242 |
Networks of influence Internet activism in Australia and beyond | 73 |
home Australian family life and the Internet | 88 |
Pornography and sexuality online Implications for Internet censorship policy | 102 |
The Australian misinformation economy Rethinking electronic commerce | 116 |
Culture | 131 |
Make new friends and kill them Online multiplayer computer game culture | 133 |
Common terms and phrases
AARNet ABC Online Aboriginal activists Andrew Garton AusGamers Australian Broadcasting Authority Australian Internet broadband Broadcasting Canberra censorship cent Centre chapter connections consumers content regulation corporate critical cyberculture cyberspace debate discussion domain name e-commerce e-government electronic commerce electronic government example forums FPS gaming Future of ideas gamers global Goggin groups ICANN ideas identity important industry Indymedia information economy information technology infrastructure innovation intellectual property interactive interest Internet activism Internet content Internet in Australia Internet service ISPs issues journalism Lessig mainstream Melbourne NOIE open publishing organisations parents Pegasus players political porn pornography production protocols radio regulatory response Roger Clarke role server sexual social society studies Sydney tactical media telecommunications television Telstra tion traditional users viewed 30 June Virtual nation websites World Wide Web
References to this book
Information Please: Culture and Politics in the Age of Digital Machines Mark Poster Limited preview - 2006 |