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Title Virtual culture : identity and communication in cybersociety / edited by Steven G. Jones
Published London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1997

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Description 1 online resource (x, 262 pages)
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
Summary '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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Internet -- Social aspects.
Computer networks -- Social aspects
Telematics -- Social aspects
Cyberspace -- Social aspects
Online identities.
Communication.
Computers and civilization.
Communities.
Minorities -- Data processing -- Social aspects
Virtual reality.
Information society.
Communication and technology.
Computer sex.
Community life.
Virtual Reality
virtual reality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
Virtual reality
Information society
Computer sex
Community life
Communication and technology
Communication
Communities
Computer networks -- Social aspects
Computers and civilization
Cyberspace -- Social aspects
Internet -- Social aspects
Online identities
Telematics -- Social aspects
Informatiemaatschappij.
Internet.
Politieke aspecten.
Sociale aspecten.
Form Electronic book
Author Jones, Steve, 1961-
ISBN 9781446264454
1446264459
9781446250303
144625030X