Digital Countercultures and the Struggle for Community

by Jessa Lingel

How countercultural communities have made the Internet meet their needs, subverting established norms of digital technology use.

Whether by accidental keystroke or deliberate tinkering, technology is often used in ways that are unintended and unimagined by its designers and inventors. In this book, Jessa Lingel offers an account of digital technology use that looks beyond Silicon Valley and college dropouts-turned-entrepreneurs. Instead,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262036215
• ISBN13: 9780262036214
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher