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Minitel: Welcome to the Internet (Platform Studies)

机译:Minitel:欢迎使用Internet(平台研究)

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On 1 April 2018, Wikipedia France put a vintage version of their website, inspired by the Minitel display, online, thereby illustrating that Minitel is part of French digital history's folklore. Nevertheless, this book reminds the French reader that Minitel also generated negative stereotypes in the English-speaking world: it was a centralised object fully controlled by a totalitarian state. Minitel, Welcome to the Internet, is the first scholarly book in the English language dedicated to the history of Minitel. Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll, both American researchers in Media studies, chose to study its history through the prism of platform studies by publishing the book, and having it become part of the eponymous MIT collection, thus helping to enlighten the reader on the social, cultural, and political aspects of its history. Considering Minitel as a singular telematics network for computation, communication and commerce, the book opposes the prejudices and seeks to understand the reasons for its success: 'How Minitel allocated power and authority among millions of users' (p. 6). However, in its introduction, the authors inform the reader that 'the Minitel period reflects many of the same tensions that animate the "platformization" of the Internet today' (p. 7). Thus, the main thread of the book is that by deconstructing the prejudices, and thus defending Minitel, innovation and civic participation on the future of the internet will be ensured. The reader is thus forewarned of this stimulating approach that will assume its share of presentism, now termed as 'platform', which did not exist during the Telematics Period.
机译:2018年4月1日,法国维基百科(Wikipedia France)在Minitel显示屏的启发下,将其网站的旧版本在线上发布,从而表明Minitel是法国数字历史民俗的一部分。尽管如此,这本书提醒法国读者,Minitel在英语世界中也产生了负面刻板印象:它是集权国家完全控制的集中对象。欢迎来到Internet的Minitel是第一本专门介绍Minitel历史的英文学术书籍。两位美国媒体研究人员Julien Mailland和Kevin Driscoll选择通过平台研究的角度来研究本书的历史,方法是出版该书,并将其纳入同名的MIT藏书中,从而有助于在社会上启发读者,历史上的文化和政治方面。该书将Minitel视为用于计算,通信和商务的单一远程信息处理网络,它反对偏见,并试图理解其成功的原因:“ Minitel如何在数百万用户中分配权力和权限”(第6页)。但是,在其介绍中,作者告知读者“ Minitel时代反映了许多与当今互联网的“平台化”相关的紧张关系”(第7页)。因此,本书的主旨是通过消除偏见,从而捍卫Minitel,确保互联网未来的创新和公民参与。因此,会提前警告读者这种刺激性的方法,这种方法将承担其在现阶段中所占的份额,即现在所谓的“平台”,在远程信息处理期间并不存在。

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    《Internet Histories》 |2018年第4期|343-346|共4页
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    Sophie Gebeil;

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    UMR 7303 TELEMMe, Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, TELEMME, Aix-en-Provence, France;

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