Mapping cyberspace
Subtitle: social research on the electronic frontier
By: edited by Joseph E. Behar
Contributors: Behar, Joseph E
Series: Dowling studies in the humanities and the social sciences
Publisher: Dowling College Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Oakdale, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Cyberspace -- Social aspects
Table of contents: title: Pt.1 Telecommunications and social relations : case studies. 1. "They've got the whole world in their hands" : a case study of social control on the Internet / Patricia J. Peterson; title: 2. E-mail to Somalia: new communication media between home and war-fronts / Morton G. Ender; title: 3. SANCTUARY: social support on the Internet / Janet Moursund; title: 4. The dialectics between the real and the virtual: the case of the Progressive Sociology Network / Martha E. Gimenez. Pt.2 Virtual worlds and social theory. 5. Caught in the Web: the phenomenon of "Cyberaddiction" / Myron Orleans; title: 6. Sex and the Internet: deviant behavior and the shaping of social control / Steven R. Cornish & Craig B. Nerenberg; title: 7. Social transformation through spatial transformation: from geospaces to cyberspaces? / Robert M. Kitchin; title: Pt.3 Cyberspace and political order. 8. The end of mass society? : a preface to telecommunication politics / Marc A. Triebwasser; title: 9. Internet insurrection : Chiapas and the laptop / Paul Rich & Guillermo De Los Reyes; title: 10. Cyberspace democracy and social behavior: reflections and refutations / James Willson-Quayle; title: Beyond the year 2000 in cyberspace / Joseph E. Behar