Title The Internet and American business / edited by William Aspray and Paul E. Ceruzzi

Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 596 pages) : illustrations Series History of computing History of computing. Contents The Internet before commercialization / Paul E. Ceruzzi -- Innovation and the evolution of market structure for Internet access in the United States / Shane Greenstein -- Protocols for profit : web and email technologies as product and infrastructure / Thomas Haigh -- The web's missing links : search engines and portals / Thomas Haigh -- The rise, fall, and resurrection of software as a service : historical perspectives on the computer utility and software for lease on a network / Martin Campbell-Kelly and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz -- Discovering a role online : brick-and-mortar retailers and the Internet / Ward Hanson -- Small ideas, big ideas, bad ideas, good ideas : "get big fast" and dot-com venture creation / David A. Kirsch and Brent Goldfarb -- Internet challenges for media businesses / Christine Ogan and Randall A. Beam -- Internet challenges for nonmedia industries, firms and workers : travel agencies, realtors, mortgage brokers, personal computer manufacturers, and information technology services professionals /Jeffrey R. Yost -- Resistance is futile? Reluctant and selective users of the Internet / Nathan Ensmenger -- New wine in old and new bottles : patterns and effects of the Internet on companies / James W. Cortada -- Communities and specialized information businesses / Atsushi Akera -- File sharing and the music industry / William Aspray -- Eros unbound : pornography and the Internet / Blaise Cronin -- Market and agora : community building by Internet / Wolfgang Coy Summary When we think of the Internet, we generally think of Amazon, Google, Hotmail, Napster, MySpace, and other sites for buying products, searching for information, downloading entertainment, chatting with friends, or posting photographs. In the academic literature about the Internet, however, these uses are rarely covered. The Internet and American Businessfills this gap, picking up where most scholarly histories of the Internet leave off--with the commercialization of the Internet established and its effect on traditional business a fact of life. These essays, describing challenges successfully met by some companies and failures to adapt by others, are a first attempt to understand a dynamic and exciting period of American business history. Tracing the impact of the commercialized Internet since 1995 on American business and society, the book describes new business models, new companies and adjustments by established companies, the rise of e-commerce, and community building; it considers dot-com busts and difficulties encountered by traditional industries; and it discusses such newly created problems as copyright violations associated with music file-sharing and the proliferation of Internet pornography. Contributors: Atsushi Akera, William Aspray, Randal A. Beam, Martin Campbell-Kelly, Paul E. Ceruzzi, James W. Cortada, Wolfgang Coy, Blaise Cronin, Nathan Ensmenger, Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz, Brent Goldfarb, Shane Greenstein, Thomas Haigh, Ward Hanson, David Kirsch, Christine Ogan, Jeffrey R. Yost Analysis INFORMATION SCIENCE/Technology & Policy INFORMATION SCIENCE/Internet Studies Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Internet -- Economic aspects -- United States Electronic commerce -- United States Internet industry -- United States Internet -- Social aspects -- United States Information technology -- Economic aspects -- United States BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- Media & Communications. TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Telecommunications. COMPUTERS -- Internet -- General. Electronic commerce Information technology -- Economic aspects Internet -- Economic aspects Internet industry Internet -- Social aspects Industrieökonomie Technische Innovation Electronic Commerce Unterhaltungsindustrie Informationstechnik Strukturwandel Internet Internet. Electronic commerce. Informationstechnik. Informationsgesellschaft. Commerce électronique -- États-Unis. Internet -- Aspect social -- États-Unis. Internet -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis. United States USA. Form Electronic book Author Aspray, William, editor Ceruzzi, Paul E., editor. ISBN 9780262255677 0262255677 1435627997 9781435627994 1282096060 9781282096066 9786612096068 6612096063

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