| Description |
viii, 293 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Contents -- Preface 000 -- 1 Consumers or Citizens? The Online Community Debate 000 -- Andrew Feenberg and Maria Bakardjieva -- Part I The Question of Community and Digital Technology 000 -- 2 The Vanishing Table, Or Community in a World That Is No World 000 -- Darin Barney -- 3 Is the Internet the Solution to the Problem of Community? 000 -- Albert Borgmann -- 4 Nihilism on the Information Highway: -- Anonymity versus Commitment in the Present Age 000 -- Hubert Dreyfus -- 5 Workers as Cyborgs: Labor and Networked Computers 000 -- Mark Poster -- 6 Our Split Screens 000 -- Sherry Turkle -- Part II Observing Online Communities 000 -- 7 Online Sociability: An Everyday Life Perspective 000 -- Maria Bakardjieva -- 8 Gender and the Commodification of Community: Women.com and gURL.com 000 -- Leslie Regan Shade -- 9 Ethics on the Internet: A Comparative Study of Japan, the United States, and Singapore 000 -- Yumiko Nara and Tetsuji Iseda -- Part III The Democratic Potential of the Internet 000 -- 10 Virtually Democratic: Online Communities and Internet Activism 000 -- Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner -- 11 The Practical Republic: Social Skills and the Progress of Citizenship 000 -- Phillip E. Agre -- 12 On Virtual, Democratic Communities 000 -- Amitai Etzioni -- 13 The Internet and Political Transformation Revisited 000 -- Diane Johnson and Bruce Bimber -- 14 Toward Civic Intelligence: Building a New Sociotechnological Infrastructure 000 -- Douglas Schuler -- Index 000 -- List of Contributors 000 |
| Analysis |
Community |
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Digital age |
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Community |
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Digital age |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects.
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Electronic villages (Computer networks)
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Cyberspace.
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| Author |
Feenberg, Andrew.
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Barney, Darin David, 1966-
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| LC no. |
2004006821 |
| ISBN |
0742529584 cased |
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0742529592 paperback |
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