The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories

The Routledge Companion to Global Internet Histories brings together research on local and international internet histories that have evolved in different regions, language cultures and social contexts across the globe. While the internet is now in its fifth decade, the understanding and formulation of its histories outside of an Anglophone framework is very much in its infancy. The emphasis of this volume is on understanding and formulating internet histories outside of the Anglophone case studies and theoretical paradigms that have so far dominated academic scholarship on internet history. Interdisciplinary in scope, the collection offers a variety of historical lenses on the development of the internet: as a new communications technology seen in the context of older technologies; as a new form of sociality read alongside previous technologically mediated means of relating; and as a new media ‘vehicle’ for the communication of content.

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. He has published widely on Internet, mobiles, and new media, especially the historical dimensions of these digital technology and culture. Key publications include the Routledge Companion to Mobile Media (2014), Locative Media(2014), Mobile Technology and Place (2012), Global Mobile Media (2011), Cell Phone Culture (2006), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia(2004), and Digital Disability (2003).

Mark McLelland is Professor in the Sociology program at the University of Wollongong, and was the 2007/08 Toyota Visiting Professor of Japanese at the Center for Japanese Studies at the University of Michigan. He has published widely concerning new media and sexuality in Japan and Asia. He is author of Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005) and co-editor ofJapanese Cybercultures (Routledge, 2003), Internationalizing Internet Studies (Routledge, 2007) and theRoutledge Handbook of Sexuality Studies in East Asia (Routledge, 2014).