ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part 1|1 pages
Framing Concepts and Approaches
chapter 2|15 pages
What’s “Culture” Got to do with it?
chapter 4|13 pages
Probing A Nation’s Web Domain
part 2|1 pages
Rethinking Internet Evolution
chapter 5|13 pages
From the Minitel to the Internet
chapter 8|13 pages
The Social Shaping of the Brazilian Internet
part 3|1 pages
Early Computer Networks, Technology, and Culture
chapter 10|18 pages
Mapping a French Internet Experience
part 4|1 pages
Imagining Community via the Internet
chapter 15|17 pages
Rethinking Arabic Linguistics
part 5|1 pages
Histories of Social Internets
chapter 23|14 pages
Survival of the Most Flexible? National Social Media Services in Global Competition
chapter 24|13 pages
Towards the Social and Mobile
chapter 25|14 pages
Platforms, Practices, and Politics
part 6|1 pages
Internets and New Media Forms
chapter 27|13 pages
Contexts, Prospects, and Contradictions
chapter 28|13 pages
Cellphone and Internet Novels
part 7|1 pages
Publics, Politics, and Digital Societies