The Internet and American Business

MIT Press

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 Business fills 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. ContributorsAtsushi 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 William Aspray is
Rudy Professor of Informatics at Indiana University in Bloomington. He is the editor
(with J. McGrath Cohoon) of Women and Information Technology: Research on
Underrepresentation (MIT Press, 2006 Paul E. Ceruzzi is Curator of the National Air
and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC. He is the author of A
History of Modern Computing (second edition, MIT Press, 2003) and Internet Alley:

High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005 (MIT Press, 2008)

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aspray, William

Ceruzzi, Paul E.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technikgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Aspray, William
William Aspray is Bill and Lewis Suit Professor of Information Technologies in the
School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the coeditor of
Women and Information Technology: Research on Underrepresentation
(2006) and The Internet and American Business (2008), both
published by the MIT Press.

Ceruzzi, Paul E.
Paul E. Ceruzzi is a Curator at the National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C. He is the author of A History of Modern
Computing, Internet Alley: High Technology in Tysons Corner, 1945-2005,
both published by the MIT Press, and other books.