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From Public Sphere to Foreign Monopoly: The Internet in Croatia in the 1990s

The emergence of the Internet in Croatia in the 1990's follows a pattern different from any other country in Europe. It connected to the Internet as early as 1991 and was the first country that had widespread access to the Internet technology during a period of conflict in which the civilian population was at risk This paper chronicles the emergence of the development of Internet provision in Croatia, and discusses its specificites from the standpoint of various sociological, politological and media theories. It pays specific attention to the ethos of social ownership of the telecommunications infrastructure descended from the socialist system, the emergence of the Internet as part of the rhetoric of the development of the public sphere, the emergence of an alternative provider (Zamir.net) during the time of conflict, the role of the state in a later commercialisation of the market place and a reluctance to deregulate the telecommunications market leading to a commercial monopoly by an external investor.

Internet; Croatia

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