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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812649103321

Titolo

Virtual culture : identity and communication in cybersociety / / edited by Steven G. Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Thousand Oaks, : Sage Publications, 1997

ISBN

1-4462-5030-X

1-4462-6445-9

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 262 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

JonesSteve <1961->

Disciplina

303.48/33

Soggetti

Internet - Social aspects

Computer networks - Social aspects

Telematics - Social aspects

Cyberspace - Social aspects

Communication

Computers and civilization

Communities

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Notes on contributors; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - The Internet and its Social Landscape; Chapter 2 - The Individual within the Collective: Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles; Chapter 3 - Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet; Chapter 4 - Structural Relations, Electronic Media, and Social Change: The Public Electronic Network and the Homeless; Chapter 5 - Why We Argue About Virtual Community: A Case Study of the Phish.Net Fan Community

Chapter 6 - Gay Men and Computer Communication: A Discourse of Sex and Identity in CyberspaceChapter 7 - Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment; Chapter 8 - (Re)-Fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman: Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix; Chapter 9 - Approaching the Radical Other: The Discursive Culture of Cyberhate; Chapter 10 - Punishing the Persona: Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender; Chapter 11 - Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet; Index



Sommario/riassunto

'Virtual Culture' provides a unique analysis of a previously undocumented aspect of the cybersociety: the way in which under-represented groups are exploiting opportunities provided for social and political change.