| Description |
xv, 219 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Virtual Dreams. Virtual Folklore: Breaking the News about the Internet. Point of No Return: Crossing the Virtual Threshold. When Cultures Collide: The Internet versus the "Great Conversation" Internet Economics: The Complex Synergies of Wealth Creation. The Evolutionary Implications of the Internet. Notes from Santa Fe: The Internet as a Complex Adaptive System -- Virtual Nightmares. Work, Leisure, and the Overthrow of Matter. Tube Time: Power Cocooning for Fun and Profit. Quality of Information: The Human Bandwidth Problem. Information Overload: A Challenge for Human Productivity? The Electronic Agora and the Death of History. Interiority: Our Most Precious Natural Resource. Electronic Mediation and Technological Dependency. The Psychopathology of Online Life. Yellow Alert: Massive System Vulnerability -- The Electronic Polity. The Complexities of Role and Identity in Cyberspace. Spin Doctors Invade Net - Film at Eleven. The Strange Obscurantism of the Virtual World |
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Virtual Schmoozing: The Ever Popular Cocktail Party Effect. A Postmodern Dilemma: Are All Ideas Created Equal? The Myth of Electronic Democracy: A Reality Check -- Digital Culture. Why Wired Is Tired: The Transformation of Technology into Culture. Random Thoughts on the Defining Works of Cyberculture. The New Media: Tossing Out the Rules. The Internet and Spirituality: A Strange Brew Indeed. The EFF and Net Politics: Technocracy in the Making? Telecom Unchained: Privatizing the Public Network -- Science, Culture, and the Internet. Is Science Our National Religion? Back to the Future: Science Fiction as Mythology. Mediated Society: The Cybersomething That Lies beyond Gesellschaft. Orwell Reconsidered: The Paradox of Decentralization. Is Cyberspace a Trojan Horse for Technocracy? Science, Spirituality, and the Crisis of Epistemology |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-216) and index |
| Subject |
Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Computers and civilization.
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| LC no. |
99023161 |
| ISBN |
0813527546 cloth alkaline paper |
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