50 Digital Ideas You Really Need to Know: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know series

Tom Chatfield is a freelance author, consultant, game writer and theorist. Tom has done design, writing and consultancy work for games and media companies, including Google and Intervox. A former senior editor at Prospect magazine, he has a doctorate from St John's College, Oxford, and writes widely in the UK national press. He lives in South London.

Introduction. The internet. The world wide web. Internet service provision. Email. Personal computing. Servers. Browsers. Markup languages. Search. Web 2.0. Netiquette. Blogging. Aggregation. Chatting. File sharing. Streaming media. Rich internet applications. Wireless. Smartphones. Malware. Spam. Privacy. The deep web. Hacking. Cyberwar. Social networking. Games consoles. Mashups. Culture jamming. E-commerce. Online advertising. Analytics. Optical character recognition. Machine translation. Location-based services. Virtual goods. eGovernment. Crowdsourcing. Free software movement. Digital distribution. Cloud computing. Going viral. Virtual worlds. Avatars. Net neutrality. Semantic web. Augmented reality. Convergence. The internet of things. Distraction. Glossary. Index.

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