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

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; Thousand Oaks, : Sage Publications, 1997
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 262 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.48/33
• Soggetto topico: Internet - Social aspects; Computer networks - Social aspects; Telematics - Social aspects; Cyberspace - Social aspects; Communication; Computers and civilization; Communities
• Altri autori: JonesSteve <1961->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Virtual culture
• ISBN: 1-4462-5030-X; 1-4462-6445-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812649103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II