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The title, (Re)Inventing the Internet, refers to this extraordinary flowering of agency in a society that tends to reduce its members to passive spectators. This collection presents a series of critical case studies that examine specific sites of change and contestation. These cover a range of phenomena including computer gaming cultures, online education, surveillance, and the mutual shaping of digital technologies and civic life.

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This volume offers theoretical insights that are applied to concrete case studies ... the chapters in this book use these case studies to inform theories. Articulation of agencies in relation to technologies is evident throughout the book. This edited volume can be a valuable resource for graduate courses in communication, information science, culture studies, political science, and sociology. -New Media and Society Freenberg's introduction has a revealing subtitle: `Toward a critical theory of the Internet'. This slim book actually does contribute a great deal towards laying the foundations for a useful and critical theory of interlinked digital media ... This book is good scholarship, and therefor good politics. It is not just for understanding the world, it is aimed at helping to shape the future. -Science as Culture

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