Virtual Politics - Identity and Community in Cyberspace

Informationen zum Autor David Holmes is a Lecturer in Communications and Media, Monash University Klappentext This incisive examination of identity, community and cyberspace shows how new technologies are altering the nature of identity, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.`Contains valuable insights for scholars teaching and researching in this field' - Political Science Zusammenfassung This incisive examination of identity, community and cyberspace shows how new technologies are altering the nature of identity, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation. `Contains valuable insights for scholars teaching and researching in this field' - Political Science Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction PART ONE: THE SELF, IDENTITY AND BODY IN THE AGE OF THE VIRTUAL Virtual Identity - David Holmes Communities of Broadcast, Communities of Interactivity Virtual Worlds/Virtual Bodies - Cathryn Vasseleu Beyond Being Digital - Nicola Green The Semiotics of Technics An Ontology of Digital Domains - Chris Chesher The Subject of Virtual Reality - Simon Cooper Plenitude vs Alienation This Abstract Body - Paul James and Freya Carkeek PART TWO: POLITICS AND COMMUNITY IN VIRTUAL WORLDS Virtual Urban Futures - Michael Ostwald Community in the Abstract - Michele Willson A Political and Ethical Dilemma? What Space Is Cyberspace? - Mark Nunes The Internet and Virtuality Always Already Virtual - Patricia Wise Feminist Politics in Cyberspace Virtual Reality and the New Age - Chris Zigiuras The Technologisation of the Sacred Cyberdemocracy - Mark Poster Internet and the Public Sphere

Product details

• Authors: David Holmes
• Assisted by: David Holmes (Editor), Holmes David (Editor)
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.12.1997
• EAN: 9780761956105
• ISBN: 978-0-7619-5610-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Politics and Culture; Politics and Culture series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Virtual Reality, Cultural Studies, PSYCHOLOGY / Personality, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social groups, The self, ego, identity, personality, Political science & theory, Psychology: the self, ego, identity, personality, Political science and theory, COMPUTERS / Virtual & Augmented Reality, Social groups, communities and identities, New Media & Communication Technology;Citizenship Studies