The Internet is a Playground

Author: David Thorne
Publisher: Fontaine Press Pty Ltd
ISBN: 0980672953
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
David Thorne has quickly established himself as the world’s leading internet troublemaker. Since his emailed efforts to settle an overdue bill with a drawing of a spider achieved massive worldwide online exposure in 2008, millions of people have followed Thorne’s hilarious exchanges with unwitting victims reported via the mainstream media, online and email inboxes globally. Thorne’s razor-sharp writings, compiled in his first book “The Internet is a Playground” say something about everyday life we can all relate to.

Digital Labor

Author: Trebor Scholz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0415896940
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 274

Book Description
'Digital Labor' asks whether life on the Internet is mostly work, or play. We tweet, we tag photos, we link, we review books, we comment on blogs, we remix media and we upload video to create much of the content that makes up the web.

The Internet Playground

Author: Ellen Seiter
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820471242
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 140

Book Description
Based on four years of experience teaching computers to 8-12 year olds, media scholar Ellen Seiter offers parents and educators practical advice on what children need to know about the Internet and when they need to know it. The Internet Playground argues that, contrary to the promises of technology boosters, teaching with computers is very difficult. Seiter points out that the Internet today resembles a mall more than it does a library. While children love to play online games, join fan communities, and use online chat and instant messaging, the Internet is also an appallingly aggressive marketer to children and, as this book passionately argues, an educational boondoggle.

The Internet is a Playground

Author: David Thorne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783082010105
Category : Australian wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
More everything! The complete, revised and unedited collection of emails and articles from the author of 27bslash6.com.

Cultures of the Internet

Author: Professor Robert M Shields
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 9781446225905
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 130

Book Description
The Internet is here but have we caught up with all the implications for culture and everyday life? This collection of original articles on the development of computer-mediated communications brings together many of the most accomplished writers on the Net and cyberspace. Cultures of Internet examines the arrival of e-mail and online discussion groups, and considers the prospect of an online world' - a playground for virtual bodies in which identities are flexible, swappable and disconnected from real-world bodies. The book traces the rise of virtual conviviality and how it supplements the physical encounters between actors in public spaces that are abandoned to the homeless. The book is distinguished by a critical and social tone. It presents systematic descriptions of the development of the Internet, its history in the military-industrial complex, the role of state policies leading, for example, to the creation of Minitel, and the building of information superhighways'. It also explores the development of this technology as a commercialized leisure form and a forum for underground political organization and critique.

The Internet is a Playground

Author: David Thorne
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101513772
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
"There is usually a fine line between genius and insanity, but in this case it has become very blurred. Some of the funniest and most clever writing I have read in years." (Terrance Fielding, WIRED magazine) "I laughed so hard and uncontrollably I could hardly breathe. Reading this on public transport is not a good idea." (Penthouse magazine) "Brilliantly funny." (Jezebel.com) From the notorious Internet troublemaker who brought the world the explosively popular "Next Time I'll Spend the Money on Drugs Instead", in which he attempted to pay his chiropractor with a picture he drew of a spider; "Please Design a Logo for Me. With Pie Charts. For Free," which has been described as one of the most passed-on viral e-mails of all time; and, most recently, the staggeringly popular "Missing Missy", which has appeared everywhere from The Guardian to Jezebel to Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish, comes this profoundly funny collection of irreverent Internet mischief and comedy. Featuring all of Thorne's viral success, including "Missing Missy", The Internet Is a Playground culls together every article and e- mail from Thorne's wildly popular website 27bslash6.com, as well as enough new material, available only in these pages, to keep you laughing-and, indeed, crying-until Thorne's next stroke-of-genius prank. Or hilarious hoax. Or well-publicized almost-stint in jail (really).

I'll Go Home Then, It's Warm and Has Chairs

Author: David Thorne
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 9780615615950
Category : Australian wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
More emails, HR run-ins, and other humor from the author of The Internet is a playground.

The Collected Works Of 27b/6

Author: David Thorne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780988689510
Category : Manners and customs
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Internet is a Playground & I'll Go Home Then comes The Collected Works of 27b/6 - Victorian Edition.

The Internet Is a Playground

Author: David Thorne
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781450537025
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
Now with added Luciusness and featuring almost no robots or explosions or exploding robots, The Internet is a Playground is the complete collection of articles from the 27bslash6 website plus articles not available anywhere else.

The Neighborhood in the Internet

Author: John M. Carroll
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317571525
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
Today, "community" seems to be everywhere. At home, at work, and online, the vague but comforting idea of the community pervades every area of life. But have we lost the ability truly to understand what it means? The Neighborhood in the Internet investigates social and civic effects of community networks on local community, and how community network designs are appropriated and extended by community members. Carroll uses his conceptual model of "community" to re-examine the Blacksburg Electronic Village – the first Web-based community network – applying it to attempts to sustain and enrich contemporary communities through information technology. The book provides an analysis of the role of community in contemporary paradigms for work and other activity mediated by the Internet. It brings to the fore a series of design experiments investigating new approaches to community networking and addresses the future trajectory and importance of community networks. This book will be of interest to students of sociology, community psychology, human-computer interaction, information science, and computer-supported collaborative work.