Category: Sociology

NetWorld! What People Are Really Doing on the Internet and What It Means to You

perky-looking Darlene and friends. I saw a red logo, too. A small “GP” appeared between “Gramercy” and “Press,” a nice little touch that a real publisher might have tried. I wondered what ambitions MCI had. Might it turn the fictitious GP into a commercial publisher someday? T...

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2. chapter 2 applied here. Rather than planning to inflict vast quantities

of material on the unwilling, the _N & O_ made the ads useful and entertaining. Elsewhere in the _N & O_ area I saw an ad for a computer dealer, among others, but the real trium...

1. did. The site popped up on my screen with color photos of a

perky-looking Darlene and friends. I saw a red logo, too. A small “GP” appeared between “Gramercy” and “Press,” a nice little touch that a real publisher might have tried. I won...

11. Chapter 7—The Electronic Matchmaker

Although anonymous servers protect privacy in most cases, this could be happening only up to a certain point. Many on the Net take it for granted that national security agencies...

6. Chapter 4—Pulped Wood versus Electrons:

A.C.’s work is on the Net, but in the strictest sense he himself isn’t. His daughter at a paper in Florida can enjoy his columns online but can’t even swap e-mail with him. Perh...

9. chapter 4, the one with whom I agreed in a friendly way to disagree.

Privacy International is an international human rights organization founded in 1987 to oppose privacy invasions worldwide. It led the campaign to fight a national card proposal...

8. Chapter 6—Governments and the Net:

Rosalind Resnick, “Cyberbiz” column of July 3, 1995, published in the _Miami Herald_, on the Knight-Ridder wire and her Web site, http://www.netcreations.com. One of the best si...

3. Chapter 1—The Terrain

The three Net-hostile quotes are from Joshua Quittner’s “Back to the real world: New books from the front lines of the information revolution urge cyberspace cadets to get a lif...

4. Chapter 2—Business on the Net:

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7. Chapter 5—Wired Knowledge:

5. Chapter 3—EntertaiNet: A Few Musings on Net.Rock,

10. part 6: Who has the clout,” the _St. Paul Pioneer Press_, April 17,