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By Alexander R. Galloway

Is the net an unlimited enviornment of unrestricted verbal exchange and freely exchanged info or a regulated, hugely established digital forms? In Protocol, Alexander Galloway argues that the founding precept of the internet is keep an eye on, no longer freedom, and that the controlling energy lies within the technical protocols that make community connections (and disconnections) attainable. He does this by means of treating the pc as a textual medium that's according to a technological language, code. Code, he argues, might be topic to a similar type of cultural and literary research as any average language; machine languages have their very own syntax, grammar, groups, and cultures. rather than hoping on validated theoretical ways, Galloway unearths a brand new strategy to write approximately electronic media, drawing on his backgrounds in machine programming and important concept. "Discipline-hopping is a need in terms of complex socio-technical themes like protocol," he writes within the preface.Galloway starts off by way of analyzing the categories of protocols that exist, together with TCP/IP, DNS, and HTML. He then appears to be like at examples of resistance and subversion -- hackers, viruses, cyberfeminism, net artwork -- which he perspectives as emblematic of the bigger variations now happening inside of electronic tradition. Written for a nontechnical viewers, Protocol serves as an important counterpoint to the wildly utopian visions of the internet that have been so frequent in past days.

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