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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784103103321

Autore

Saco Diana

Titolo

Cybering democracy [[electronic resource] ] : public space and the Internet / / Diana Saco

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2002

ISBN

0-8166-9138-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (326 p.)

Collana

Electronic mediations ; ; v. 7

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Internet - Political aspects

Cyberspace - Political aspects

Internet - Social aspects

Cyberspace - Social aspects

Democracy

Information society

Public spaces

Human body

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-285) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Theorizing spaces -- Democratic utopias -- Hardware and software -- Wetware -- Hacking cyberspace.

Sommario/riassunto

In Cybering Democracy, Diana Saco boldly reconceptualizes the relationship between democratic participation and spatial realities both actual and virtual. She argues that cyberspace must be viewed as a produced social space, one that fruitfully confounds the ordering conventions of our physical spaces.