The history of Internet-related innovations enables us to discuss those social and cognitive phenomena that underlie technological change. By studying such innovations, we can open some black boxes of innovation theory, including such widely used concepts as learning, capability, utility, and consumption. Integrating concepts from multiple theoretical disciplines and detailed analyses of the evolution of Internet-related innovations, this book develops foundations for a new theoretical and practical understanding of innovation.

Social and Virtual Space: Science Fiction, Transnationalism, and the America New Right
Laura Chernaik

    Social and Virtual Space is a material and semiotic study of transnationalism, analyzed in terms of race, class, gender, and sexuality. The objects of analysis range from the aftermath of the U.S.-led war in Iraz, to science fiction by Pat Cadigan, C.J. Cherryh, and Samuel Delany, to material-semiotic feminist theory by Donna Haraway, and to the neo-Marxist historical geography of Mike Davis and David Harvey.