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Autore |
Losh Elizabeth M (Elizabeth Mathews) |
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Virtualpolitik : an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes / / Elizabeth Losh |
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Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2009 |
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1-282-24047-1 |
9786612240478 |
0-262-25494-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 PDF (xi, 414 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Information society - Political aspects - United States |
Information technology - Political aspects - United States |
Internet - Political aspects - United States |
Communication - Political aspects - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: A fable of politics, community, and virtuality -- Digital monsters : show and tell on Capitol Hill -- Hacking Aristotle : what is digital rhetoric? -- The desert of the unreal : democracy and military-funded videogames and simulations -- The war from the Web : an atlas of conflict, government, and citizenship -- Power points : the virtual state and its discontents -- Whistle-blowers : traditional epistolary discourse and electronic communication -- Submit and render : digital satires about surveillance and authentication -- Reading room : the nation-state and digital library initiatives -- Waiting room : serious games about national security and public health -- The past as prologue : cultural politics and the founding narratives of information science. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Government media making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences. |
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