Virtual culture
Subtitle: identity and communication in cybersociety
By: edited by Steven G. Jones.
Contributors: Jones, Steve, 1961-
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
Subjects: Internet -- Social aspects; Computer networks -- Social aspects; Telematics -- Social aspects; Cyberspace -- Social aspects; Communication; Computers and civilization; Community
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The internet and its social landscape / Steven G. Jones; title: The individual within the collective : virtual ideology and the realization of collective principles / Jan Fernback; title: Virtual commonality : looking for India on the Internet / Ananda Mitra; title: Structural relations, electronic media, and social change : the public electronic network and the homeless / Joseph Schmitz; title: Why we argue about virtual community : a case study of the phish.net fan community / Nessim Watson; title: Gay men and computer communication : a discourse of sex and identity in cyberspace / David F. Shaw; title: Virtual community in a telepresence environment / Margaret L. McLaughlin, Kerry K. Osborne, and Nicole B. Ellison; title: (Re)-fashioning the techno-erotic woman : gender and textuality in the cybercultural matrix / Dawn Dietrich; title: Approaching the radical other : the discursive culture of cyberhate / Susan Zickmund; title: Punishing the persona : correctional strategies for the virtual offender / Richard C. MacKinnon; title: Civil society, political economy, and the Internet / Harris Breslow.