Virtual culture : identity and communication in cybersociety

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Title:

Virtual culture : identity and communication in cybersociety

Author:

Jones, Steve, 1961-

ISBN:

9780761955252

9780761955269

Publication Information:

London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1997.

Physical Description:

x, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

The internet and its social landscape / Steven G. Jones -- The individual within the collective : virtual ideology and the realization of collective principles / Jan Fernback -- Virtual commonality : looking for India on the Internet / Ananda Mitra -- Structural relations, electronic media, and social change : the public electronic network and the homeless / Joseph Schmitz -- Why we argue about virtual community : a case study of the phish.net fan community / Nessim Watson -- Gay men and computer communication : a discourse of sex and identity in cyberspace / David F. Shaw -- Virtual community in a telepresence environment / Margaret L. McLaughlin, Kerry K. Osborne, and Nicole B. Ellison -- (Re)-fashioning the techno-erotic woman : gender and textuality in the cybercultural matrix / Dawn Dietrich -- Approaching the radical other : the discursive culture of cyberhate / Susan Zickmund -- Punishing the persona : correctional strategies for the virtual offender / Richard C. MacKinnon -- Civil society, political economy, and the Internet / Harris Breslow.

Introduction / Steven G. Jones -- 1. The Internet and its Social Landscape / Steven G. Jones -- 2. The Individual within the Collective: Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles / Jan Fernback -- 3. Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet / Ananda Mitra -- 4. Structural Relations, Electronic Media, and Social Change: The Public Electronic Network and the Homeless / Joseph Schmitz -- 5. Why We Argue About Virtual Community: A Case Study of the Phish.Net Fan Community / Nessim Watson -- 6. Gay Men and Computer Communication: A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace / David F. Shaw -- 7. Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment / Margaret L. McLaughlin, Kerry K. Osborne and Nicole B. Ellison -- 8. (Re)-fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman: Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix.

Abstract:

Virtual Culture marks a significant intervention in the current debate about access and control in cybersociety by exposing the ways in which the Internet and other computer-mediated communication technologies are being used by disadvantaged and marginal groups such as gay men, women, fan communities, and the homeless, for social and political change.

Subject Term:

Internet -- Social aspects.

Computer networks -- Social aspects.

Telematics -- Social aspects.

Cyberspace -- Social aspects.

Communication.

Computers and civilization.

Communities.

Added Author:

Jones, Steve, 1961-

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Virtual Culture marks a significant intervention in the current debate about access and control in cybersociety exposing the ways in which the Internet and other computer-mediated communication technologies are being used by disadvantaged and marginal groups - such as gay men, women, fan communities and the homeless - for social and political change.

The contributors to this book apply a range of theoretical perspecitves derived from communication studies, sociology and anthropology to demonstrate the theoretical and practical possibilities for cybersociety as an identity-structured space.