Cached : decoding the Internet in global popular culture / Stephanie Ricker Schulte.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-251) and index.

The wargames scenario : regulating teenagers and teenaged technology -- The Internet grows up and goes to work : user-friendly tools for productive adults -- From computers to cyberspace : virtual reality, the virtual nation, and the CorpoNation -- Self-colonizing eEurope : the information society merges onto the information superhighway -- Tweeting into the future : affecting citizens and networking revolution.

In 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 time: shopping, working, learning, and even taking political or social action. Policymakers and news media attempted - and often struggled - to make sense of the emergence and expansion of this new technology. This book focuses on how people imagine and relate to technology, delving into the political and cultural debates that produced the Internet as a core technology able to revise economics, politics, and culture, as well as to alter lived experience.

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