The Hyperlinked Society: Questioning Connections in the Digital Age
by Joseph Turow, Lokman Tsui
Publisher: University of Michigan Press 2008
ISBN/ASIN: 0472050435
ISBN-13: 9780472050437
Number of pages: 328
Description:
The Hyperlinked Society addresses a provocative series of questions about the ways in which hyperlinks organize behavior online. This path-breaking collection of essays will be valuable to anyone interested in the now taken-for-granted connections that structure communication, commerce, and civic discourse in the world of digital media.
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