24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the Digital Cave Photographed on One Day by 150 of the World's Leading Photojournalists (Day in the Life) [Hardcover]

Jennifer Erwitt (Author), Rick Smolan (Photographer)

Book Description

Series: Day in the Life | Publication Date: October 1996

Collects the stories and photographs that follow a day in the life of cyberspace, celebrating the counterculture of the World Wide Web while profiling it as a resource for social activities, education, and human services. Original. (All Users).

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Amazon.com Review

The result of an unprecedented one-day event that brought together the world's top photographers, editors, programmers and interactive designers to create a digital time capsule of online life, 24 Hours in Cyberspace features 200 of the most compelling photographs culled from 200,000 images taken on February 8, 1996. The 150 photographers who participated focused their lenses on the human face of cyberspace - the new ways in which we work, play, learn, conduct business and interact. Their photographic assignments included some of the most intriguing stories from the online frontier. They covered students in South Africa's Nelson Mandella township who use donated PC's to communicate with the outside world; exiled Tibetans who rely on the Internet to preserve their culture and to enlist others to fight for their cause; Americans seeking to adopt Russian orphans online; and a father in San Jose, California who publishes Will's Page, an electronic journal of his four-year-old son's battle with leukemia.

The book comes with a special Collector's Edition CD-ROM containing the entire 24 Hours in Cyberspace website, as well as footage of the "Nightline" segment featuring "The Making of 24 Hours in Cyberspace." The CD-ROM also includes Netscape Navigator for Macintosh and Windows '95, plus 15 hours' free time on AOL and GNN.

From Publishers Weekly

Smolan, who created the popular "Day in the Life" photo-essay series, and Erwitt, project director of the series, led a team of 150 photojournalists who fanned out across the world on February 8, 1996, to document how the Internet and online communication are changing people's lives. This striking collage is full of remarkable human-interest stories, complemented by more than 200 interesting, sometimes stunning photographs. We see a global village emerging: students in Michigan virtually work alongside archeologists in Egypt as they excavate a fourth-century Coptic monastery; an Inuit boy who travels across Canada's tundra by dogsled sends digital pictures of his life to children around the world; exiled Tibetans and Mexican Zapatista guerrillas seek political support or medical assistance via the Internet. Stories include those of an electronically reconstructed 14-acre AIDS quilt cybermemorial and a Virginia man on death row for a murder he claims he did not commit, who is lobbying for a new trial on a Web page created by a Boston law student. Essays by Paul Saffo, director of the Institute for the Future, examine the Internet as a democratic medium, a market space for businesses, a vital link to medical care, a tool for seeing the planet in new ways. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the entire "24 Hours in Cyberspace" Web site. 200,000 first printing; $500,000 ad/promo; first serial to U.S. News & World Report; author tour.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Que Macmillan USA; 1st edition (October 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789709252
• ISBN-13: 978-0789709257
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.7 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,404,127 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An incredibly predictive web description!, September 27, 2003

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Carlos E. Sicilia H. "Carlos Sicilia" (Caracas, DF, Venezuela) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the Digital Cave Photographed on One Day by 150 of the World's Leading Photojournalists (Day in the Life) (Hardcover)

This is the first book I did purchase thru Amazon. And, I must confess, this book is the perfect selection to anyone interested in "feeling" what the web means today all over the world. It's indeed extraordinary, too, that all the wonderful pictures that are included in it were taken IN THE VERY SAME DAY in a period of just 24 hours. Moreover, that day the pics were being published almost in real time in the special web site for the project. The book quality is coffe-table-like. And the CD companion is just a perfect match. I do deeply recommend it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Beware of the CDROM installation, April 20, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: 24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the Digital Cave Photographed on One Day by 150 of the World's Leading Photojournalists (Day in the Life) (Hardcover)

If you already have a good www browser like Netscape 3 or Internet Explorer, don't follow the instructions for installing the CDROM. It does a lousy job of searching for existing versions of Netscape. It overrode my newer version and installed version 2. Just point your existing browser at the cdrom and start reading it. Other than this, it's great! Ted Shapin

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars US News & World Report says:, December 16, 1996

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This review is from: 24 Hours in Cyberspace: Painting on the Walls of the Digital Cave Photographed on One Day by 150 of the World's Leading Photojournalists (Day in the Life) (Hardcover)

"An extraordinary artistic, technical and logistical juggling act aimed at capturing the human face of cyberspace on film.".....