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<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Italy</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Jamaica</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Japan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Jersey</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Jordan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Kazakhstan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Kenya</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Kiribati</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Korea,
Democratic People's Republic of</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Korea,
Republic of</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Kuwait</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Kyrgyzstan</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Lao
People's Democratic Republic</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Latvia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Lebanon</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Lesotho</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Liberia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Libyan
Arab Jamahiriya</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Liechtenstein</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Lithuania</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Luxembourg</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Macao</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Macedonia,
The Former Yugoslav Republic Of</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Madagascar</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Malawi</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Malaysia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Maldives</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Mali</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Malta</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Marshall
Islands</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Martinique</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Mauritania</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Mauritius</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Mayotte</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Mexico</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Micronesia,
Federated States Of</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Moldova,
Republic Of</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Monaco</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Mongolia</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Montserrat</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Morocco</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Mozambique</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Myanmar</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Namibia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Nauru</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Nepal</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Netherlands</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Netherlands
Antilles</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">New
Caledonia</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">New
Zealand</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Nicaragua</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Niger</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Nigeria</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Niue</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Norfolk
Island</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Northern
Mariana Islands</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Norway</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Oman</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Pakistan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Palau</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Panama</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Papua
New Guinea</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Paraguay</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Peru</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Philippines</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Pitcairn</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Poland</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Portugal</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Puerto
Rico</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Qatar</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Republic
of Ireland</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Reunion</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Romania</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Russian
Federation</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Rwanda</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Saint
Helena</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Saint
Kitts And Nevis</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Saint
Lucia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Saint
Pierre And Miquelon</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Saint
Vincent and the Grenadines</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Samoa</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">San
Marino</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Sao
Tome And Principe</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Saudi
Arabia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Senegal</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Serbia
And Montenegro</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Seychelles</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Sierra
Leone</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Singapore</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Slovenia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Solomon
Islands</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Somalia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">South
Africa</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">South
Georgia And The South Sandwich Islands</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Spain</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Sri
Lanka</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Sudan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Suriname</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Svalbard
And Jan Mayen</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Swaziland</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Sweden</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Switzerland</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Syrian
Arab Republic</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Taiwan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Tajikistan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Tanzania,
United Republic Of</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Thailand</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Timor-Leste</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Togo</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Tokelau</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Tonga</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Trinidad
and Tobago</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Tunisia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Turkey</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Turkmenistan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Turks
And Caicos Islands</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Tuvalu</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Uganda</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Ukraine</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">United
Arab Emirates</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">United
Kingdom</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">United
States</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">United
States Minor Outlying Islands</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Uruguay</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Uzbekistan</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Vanuatu</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Venezuela</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Vietnam</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Virgin
Islands, British</option>
<option value="tri" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Virgin
Islands, U.S.</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Wallis
And Futuna</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Western
Sahara</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Yemen</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Zambia</option>
<option value="wil" style="padding: 0px 0.4em;">Zimbabwe</option>
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initial;">Is the Internet a vast arena of
unrestricted communication and freely
exchanged information or a regulated, highly
structured virtual bureaucracy? In<span
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Alexander Galloway argues that the founding
principle of the Net is control, not
freedom, and that the controlling power lies
in the technical protocols that make network
connections (and disconnections) possible.
He does this by treating the computer as a
textual medium that is based on a
technological language, code. Code, he
argues, can be subject to the same kind of
cultural and literary analysis as any
natural language; computer languages have
their own syntax, grammar, communities, and
cultures. Instead of relying on established
theoretical approaches, Galloway finds a new
way to write about digital media, drawing on
his backgrounds in computer programming and
critical theory. "Discipline-hopping is a
necessity when it comes to complicated
socio-technical topics like protocol," he
writes in the preface.</p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1.2em; padding: 0px;
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initial;">Galloway begins by examining the
types of protocols that exist, including
TCP/IP, DNS, and HTML. He then looks at
examples of resistance and
subversion—hackers, viruses, cyberfeminism,
Internet art—which he views as emblematic of
the larger transformations now taking place
within digital culture. Written for a
nontechnical audience, Protocol serves as a
necessary counterpoint to the wildly utopian
visions of the Net that were so widespread
in earlier days.</p>
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R. Galloway is Assistant Professor of Media
Ecology at New York University.</p>
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engaging methodological hybrid of the Frankfurt
School and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><i
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Dummies</i>.... Galloway brings the uncool
question of morality back into critical
thinking.", Ed Halter, The Village Voice</p>
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is one of the very few people who are equally well
versed in poststructuralist cultural theory and
computer programming.", Steven Shaviro, The
Pinocchio Theory Weblog</p>
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a book on computer science written by someone
who's not a computer scientist, and that's a good
thing.", Gary Singh, Metro</p>
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some startling new lines of thought with
refreshingly straightforward clarity, Galloway
reminds all of us why thinking about networks and
their protocols is so relevant to our time. From
FTP to fluxus or Deleuze to DNS, these are the
connections that need to be made between the
models competing to be our reality."<br>
—<b style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px;
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Rushkoff</b>, author of<span
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Virus, Coercion</i>, and<span
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Sacred</i></p>
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very valuable, very original, and very significant
contribution to the field of media studies and
cultural theory."<br>
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Baumg</b></p>
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