Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information

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Summary: Highly recommend this alternative to Internet hoopla.
Review: Editors Brook and Boal have compiled an excellent collection of essays about computers and their broad impact on society.At times depressing and uplifting, this book is required reading for anyone who is a serious student of computer culture and its implications on our modern society. Many academics contribute, so the text at times takes on an elitist air (in one essay, it really helps to know French), but then again the book not intended for a general audience. Luddites and computer enthusiasts both should read this fine book, a welcome dose of reality after the ceaseless hoopla that surrounds the Internet.