13 minutes ago - PDF Cached: Decoding the Internet in Global Popular Culture (Critical Cultural Communication Book 23) | 8220 This is the most culturally sophisticated history of the Internet yet written We can8217 t make sense of what the Internet means in our lives without reading Schulte8217 s elegant account of what the Internet has meant at various points in the past 30 years8221 8212 Siva Vaidhyanathan, Chair of the Department of Media Studies at The University of VirginiaIn the 1980s and 1990s, the internet became a major player in the global economy and a revolutionary component of everyday life for much of the United States and the world It offered users new ways to relate to one another, to share their lives, and to spend their time8212 shopping, working, learning, and even taking political or social action Policymakers and news media attempted8212 and often struggled8212 to make sense of the emergence and expansion of this new technology They imagined the internet in conflicting terms: as a toy for teenagers, a national security threat, a new democratic frontier, an information superhighway,