The Internet and American Business

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-262-01240-9
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC

Buch, Englisch, 604 Seiten, Format (B × H): 185 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 1075 g

Reihe: History of Computing

When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail,

Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading

entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature about the

Internet, however, these uses are rarely covered. The Internet and American Business fills this gap,

picking up where most scholarly histories of the Internet leave off--with the commercialization of

the Internet established and its effect on traditional business a fact of life. These essays,

describing challenges successfully met by some companies and failures to adapt by others, are a

first attempt to understand a dynamic and exciting period of American business history. Tracing the

impact of the commercialized Internet since 1995 on American business and society, the book

describes new business models, new companies and adjustments by established companies, the rise of

e-commerce, and community building; it considers dot-com busts and difficulties encountered by

traditional industries; and it discusses such newly created problems as copyright violations

associated with music file-sharing and the proliferation of Internet pornography.

ContributorsAtsushi Akera, William Aspray, Randal A. Beam, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Paul E. Ceruzzi,

James W. Cortada, Wolfgang Coy, Blaise Cronin, Nathan Ensmenger, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz, Brent

Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein, Thomas Haigh, Ward Hanson, David Kirsch, Christine Ogan, Jeffrey R. Yost

William Aspray is Rudy Professor of Informatics at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the

editor (with J. McGrath Cohoon) of Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation

(MIT Press, 2006 Paul E. Ceruzzi is Curator of the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian

Institution, Washington DC. He is the author of A History of Modern Computing (second edition, MIT

Press, 2003) and Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (MIT Press,

2008)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aspray, William

Ceruzzi, Paul E.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Computerkommunikation & -vernetzung Internet, E-Mail, VoIP
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein EDV & Informatik: Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management E-Commerce, E-Business, E-Marketing

Über Autor(innen)

Aspray, William
William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the
School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of
<I>Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation</I>
(2006) and <I>The Internet and American Business</I> (2008), both
published by the MIT Press.

Ceruzzi, Paul E.
Paul E. Ceruzzi is a Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. He is the author of <I>A History of Modern
Computing, Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005</I>,
both published by the MIT Press, and other books.

William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation (2006) and The Internet and American Business (2008), both published by the MIT Press.