Internet Between Utopia and Dystopia The Narratives of Control
| Hetland, Per | ||
| Carlsson, Ulla | ||
| 2014-11-14T12:44:20Z | ||
| 2014-11-14T12:44:20Z | ||
| 2012-12 | ||
| The Internet has often been envisioned as a technological utopia, framed by the rhetoric of hope. However, after studying the popular discourse, three meta-narratives are identified : utopian narratives containing the pro-innovation position ; dystopian narratives containing the anti-diffusion position ; technology-as-risk narratives containing the control position . While narratives of anti-diffusion are more or less invisible, narratives of control are sur - prisingly absent from the scientific discourse about the Internet. The present article sets out to explore narratives of control as they were presented in the Norwegian press during the 1995-2006 period. We have also studied how the expectancy cycles of the Internet fluctuate over time within this period. The study supports two general conclusions: (1) the expectancy cycles for the Internet in the mass media fluctuate in a manner comparable with the stages of the innovation-decision process and; (2) the control position promotes individual, social, technological and institutional control, and is more prominent when the Internet is lower on the media agenda | sv | |
| 14 | sv | |
| Nordicom Review 33 (2012) 2, pp. 3-15 | sv | |
| 978-91-86523-57-2 | ||
| DOI: 1234254637 | ||
| http://hdl.handle.net/2077/37406 | ||
| eng | sv | |
| Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordicom | sv | |
| Internet | sv | |
| innovation | sv | |
| expectations | sv | |
| narratives | sv | |
| domestication | sv | |
| Internet Between Utopia and Dystopia The Narratives of Control | sv | |
| Text | sv | |
| article, peer reviewed scientific | sv |