Bibliographische Detailangaben
Beteiligte: Feenberg, Andrew, Barney, Darin
veröffentlicht: Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated, 2004.
©2004.
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Umfang: 1 online resource (303 pages)
ISBN: 9780742574434
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
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Print version:: Feenberg, Andrew, Community in the Digital Age, Blue Ridge Summit : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated,c2004
Kollektion: E-Books adlr
Inhaltsangabe

Community in the Digital Age features the latest, most challenging work in an important and fast-changing field, providing a forum for some of the leading North American social scientists and philosophers concerned with the social and political implications of this new technology. Their provocative arguments touch on all sides of the debate surrounding the Internet, community, and democracy.

Intro
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
1 Consumers or Citizens? The Online Community Debate Andrew Feenberg and Maria Bakardjieva
Part I: The Question of Community and Digital Technology
2 The Vanishing Table, Or Community in a World That Is No World Darin Barney
3 Is the Internet the Solution to the Problem of Community? Albert Borgmann
4 Nihilism on the Information Highway: Anonymity versus Commitment in the Present Age Hubert Dreyfus
5 Workers as Cyborgs: Labor and Networked Computers Mark Poster
6 Our Split Screens Sherry Turkle
Part II: Observing Online Communities
7 Virtual Togetherness: An Everyday Life Perspective Maria Bakardjieva
8 Gender and the Commodification of Community: Women.com and gURL.com Leslie Regan Shade
9 Ethics on the Internet: A Comparative Study of Japan, the United States, and Singapore Yumiko Nara and Tetsuji Iseda
Part III: The Democratic Potential of the Internet
10 Virtually Democratic: Online Communities and Internet Activism Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner
11 The Practical Republic: Social Skills and the Progress of Citizenship Philip E. Agre
12 On Virtual, Democratic Communities Amitai Etzioni
13 The Internet and Political Transformation Revisited Diane Johnson and Bruce Bimber
14 Toward Civic Intelligence: Building a New Sociotechnological Infrastructure Douglas Schuler
Index
List of Contributors.