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| published: | London : SAGE Publications, Limited, 1997. ©1997. |
| Media Type: | Book, E-Book |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 pages) |
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9781446264454
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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Jones, Steven, Virtual Culture, London : SAGE Publications, Limited,c1997
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| Collection: | E-Books adlr |
Virtual Culture marks a significant intervention in the debate about access and control in cybersociety exposing the ways in which the Internet and other computer-mediated communication technologies are being used by disadvantaged and marginal groups for social and political change. |
| Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Notes on contributors Preface Introduction 1 The Internet and its Social Landscape 2 The Individual within the Collective: Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles 3 Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet 4 Structural Relations, Electronic Media, and Social Change: The Public Electronic Network and the Homeless 5 Why We Argue About Virtual Community: A Case Study of the Phish.Net Fan Community 6 Gay Men and Computer Communication: A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace 7 Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment 8 (Re)-fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman: Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix 9 Approaching the Radical Other: The Discursive Culture of Cyberhate 10 Punishing the Persona: Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender 11 Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet Index. |