Description |
xviii, 279 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents |
Introduction / David Porter -- 1. An Archaeology of Cyberspaces: Virtuality, Community, Identity / Shawn P. Wilbur -- 2. Community and Identity in the Electronic Village / Derek Foster -- 3. Usenet Communities and the Cultural Politics of Information / Michele Tepper -- 4. Cyberspace and Place: The Internet as Middle Landscape on the Electronic Frontier / Dave Healy -- 5. Flesh Made Word: Sex, Text and the Virtual Body / Shannon McRae -- 6. Virtually Embodied: The Reality of Fantasy in a Multi-User Dungeon / Mizuko Ito -- 7. The Postmodern Paradiso: Dante, Cyberpunk, and the Technosophy of Cyberspace / Jeffrey Fisher -- 8. Spam: Heteroglossia and Harassment in Cyberspace / Charles J. Stivale -- 9. I Flamed Freud: A Case Study in Teletextual Incendiarism / William B. Millard -- 10. IMHO: Authority and Egalitarian Rhetoric in the Virtual Coffeehouse / Brian A. Connery -- 11. Essayistic Messages: Internet Newsgroups as an Electronic Public Sphere / James A. Knapp |
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12. Cyberdemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere / Mark Poster -- 13. Progressive Politics, Electronic Individualism and the Myth of Virtual Community / Joseph Lockard -- 14. Reading, Writing, Hypertext: Democratic Politics in the Virtual Classroom / Joseph Tabbi -- 15. Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture / Jon Stratton |
Summary |
Looks at the virtual spaces and places created by citizens on the Net. Tries to map the contours of the Net as a new site of common cultural activity |
Analysis |
Internet (Computer network) |
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Internet (Computer network) Social aspects |
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Internet Social aspects |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects.
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Author |
Porter, David, 1965-
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LC no. |
96036557 |
ISBN |
0415916836 (hardbound) |
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0415916844 (paperback) |
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(paperback) |
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