Virtual publics
Subtitle: policy and community in an electronic age
By: edited by Beth E. Kolko.
Contributors: Kolko, Beth E.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 396
Subjects: Internet -- Social aspects.; Information technology -- Social aspects.; Information society.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: The net effect: the public's fear and the public sphere / Gilbert B. Rodman; The Internet, community definition, and the social meaning of legal jurisdiction / Paul Schiff Berman; Architectural design for online environments / Anna Cicognani; Community, affect, and the virtual: the politics of cyberspace / J. MacGregor Wise; Securing trust online: wisdom or oxymoron? / Helen Nissenbaum; TV predicts its future: on convergence and cybertelevision / Tara McPherson; Women making multimedia: possibilities for feminist activism / Mary E. Hocks and Anne Balsamo; Is it art, in fact? / Mitch Geller; Making the virtual real: university-community partnerships / Alison Regan and John Zuern; Where do you want to learn tomorrow? the paradox of the virtual university / Collin Gifford Brooke; Community-based software, participatory theater: models for inviting participation in learning and artistic production / Susan Claire Warshauer; Communication, community, consumption: an ethnographic exploration of an online city / David Silver; Can technology transform? experimenting with wired communities / Mark A. Jones.