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The internet myth: from the internet imaginary to network ideologies
‘The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries, and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as this book is to understand our shattered digital world, it is essential for those who would fix it.’ — Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart C…
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- 9781912656752
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- xiii, 169p.: ill
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- 004.678 BOR i
Connecting the nation: a short thematic history of Australian civil aviation
Aviation has played an important part in shaping Australia’s culture and history through the course of the twentieth century. Australia embraced aviation from its earliest days, eagerly responding to its potential to cover a challenging country, to bring far-flung communities closer and to provide services that could not be delivered any other way. Add the romance of pioneer heroes, the vital…
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- 9780994503954
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- 140p.:
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- 354.79 ASH c
Why do we quote?: the culture and history of quotation
Quoting is all around us. But do we really know what it means? How do people actually quote today, and how did our present systems come about? This book brings together a down-to-earth account of contemporary quoting with an examination of the comparative and historical background that lies behind it and the characteristic way that quoting links past and present, the far and the near. Drawing f…
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- 9781906924355 (pdf)
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- 1 online resource (xvi, 327 pages)
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- 808 FIN w
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