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Virtual Culture
Identity and Communication in Cybersociety
Edited by:
- Steve Jones - University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
June 1997 | 272 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
Virtual Culture marks a significant intervention in the current 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 - such as gay men, women, fan communities and the homeless - for social and political change.
The contributors to this book apply a range of theoretical perspecitves derived from communication studies, sociology and anthropology to demonstrate the theoretical and practical possibilities for cybersociety as an identity-structured space.
Steven G Jones
Introduction
Steven G Jones
The Internet and Its Social Landscape
Jan Fernback
The Individual Within the Collective
Ananda Mitra
Virtual Commonality
Joseph Schmitz
Structural Relations, Electronic Media and Social Change
Nessim Watson
Why We Argue about Virtual Community
David Shaw
Gay Men and Computer Communication
Margaret L McLaughlin, Kerry K Osborne and Nicole B Ellison
Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment
Dawn Dietrich
(Re)-Fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman
Susan Zickmund
Approaching the Radical Other
Richard MacKinnon
Punishing the Persona
Harris Breslow
Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet
Useful in introductory to media course. Does of good job of explaining how virtual culture impacts communications discourses.
Media Communications, Kennedy - King College
September 4, 2013
