Author(s)

Yidan Zhang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Beijing Language and Culture University School of Journalism& Communication, Beijing 100083, China

Corresponding Author

Yidan Zhang

ABSTRACT

In his book digital Utopia: from counterculture to cyber culture, Fred Turner puts forward that the development of computer technology and the change of computer metaphor are closely related to the development of American counterculture. From the boycott of computers in the 1960s to the praises of computers in the 1990s, The reason for this change is not only related to the development of technology, but also closely related to the change of social culture and thinking consciousness.

KEYWORDS

counterculture, Internet development, Digital Utopia

CITE THIS PAPER

Yidan Zhang, The changes of of computer metaphor—Reading report of From Counterculture to Cyberculture. Journal of Sociology and Ethnology (2022) Vol. 4: 41-44. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jsoce.2022.040509.

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