Virtualpolitik
Subtitle: an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes
By: Elizabeth Losh.
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 414
ISBN-13: 9780262123044
Subjects: Information society -- Political aspects -- United States; Information technology -- Political aspects -- United States; Internet -- Political aspects -- United States; Communication -- Political aspects -- United States
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: A fable of politics, community, and virtuality; title: Digital monsters : show and tell on capitol hill; title: Hacking aristotle : what is digital rhetoric; title: The desert of the unreal : democracy and military-funded games and simulations; title: The war from the web : an atlas of conflict, government, and citizenship; title: Power points : the virtual state and its discontents; title: Whistleblowers : traditional epistolary discourse and electronic communication; title: Submit and render : digital satires about surveillance and authentication; title: Reading room : the nation-state and digital library initiatives; title: Waiting room : serious games about national security and public health; title: The past as prologue : cultural politics and the founding narratives of information; title: Science.