“Technological systems are socially produced. Social production is culturally informed. The Internet is no exception.”

Source: The Internet Galaxy - Reflections on the Internet, Business, and Society (2001), Chapter 2, The Culture of the Internet, p. 36

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Spanish sociologist (b.1942) 1942

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