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Tables of Contents for The Internet
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
List of illustrations
viii
Preface
ix
Acknowledgements
xii
Understanding the Internet
1
32
Introduction
1
10
History of the Internet
11
13
How the Internet works
24
7
Further reading
31
2
Using the Internet
33
24
Introduction
33
1
Email
34
5
The Web and file transfer
39
4
Usenet and newsgroups
43
4
Chat, conferencing and instant messaging
47
1
Researching via the Internet
48
7
Further reading
55
2
New media and web production
57
36
Introduction
57
1
Text and hypertext
58
4
Digital imaging
62
5
Audio and video
67
7
Web production
74
5
Elements of a web page
79
8
Dynamic web sites
87
4
Further reading
91
2
Institutions, ethics and regulation
93
38
Introduction
93
1
Internet administration
94
2
Commercial organisations
96
9
Copyright
105
5
Defamation and free speech
110
6
Sex, pornography and obscenity
116
4
Hacking and privacy
120
9
Further reading
129
2
Cyberculture I: Society, community and cyberspace
131
32
Introduction
131
1
Studying cyberculture
132
2
Cyberspace
134
8
The Internet, the public sphere and virtual communities
142
11
Cybercolonisation
153
7
Further reading
160
3
Cyberculture II: Identity, sexuality and popular culture
163
28
Introduction
163
1
Online identities
163
8
Popular cyberculture and postmodernism
171
6
Cybersubcultures
177
6
Cyberfeminism
183
5
Further reading
188
3
Appendix I: Glossary
191
10
Appendix II: Useful sites
201
6
Bibliography
207
16
Index
223