Les Internet Studies et Code Studies, le Material Turn et les approches STS font émerger des questions sur la matérialité de l’Internet pressenties par l’historien Paul E. Ceruzzi dans:
“The Materiality of the Internet”, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, vol.28, no. 3, pp. 96, c3, July-September 2006, doi:10.1109/MAHC.2006.58
Abstract: The Internet is a technological construction with a magnitude and scope comparable to the hydroelectric dams, railroads, aircraft, and electric power systems of an earlier era. Yet, it has no obvious physical manifestation–no physical object we can point to that obviously and unambiguously represents it. This article suggests some of the reasons why that is and whether a physical essence is important in defining large-scale technological systems.
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Valérie Schafer (5 juillet 2015). The Materiality of the Internet. Web90 - Patrimoine, Mémoires et Histoire du Web dans les années 1990. Consulté le 11 décembre 2024 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/v9ty