Open Standards and the Digital Age
History, Ideology, and Networks
How did openness become a foundational value for the networks of the twenty-first century? Open Standards and the Digital Age answers this question through an interdisciplinary history of information networks that pays close attention to the politics of standardization. For much of the twentieth century, information networks such as the monopoly Bell System and the American military's Arpanet were closed systems subject to centralized control. In the 1970s and 1980s however, engineers in the United States and Europe experimented with design strategies to create new digital networks. In the process, they embraced discourses of 'openness' to de…
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- ISBN: 978-1-139-89898-0
- EAN: 9781139898980
- Produktnummer: 17025103
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 6'044 KB
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