Virtual Publics - Policy and Community in an Electronic Age

Informationen zum Autor Edited by Beth E. Kolko Klappentext How does virtuality affect reality? Fourteen experts consider this question from the perspective of law! architecture! rhetoric! philosophy! and art. Nearly all of the contributors have been online since before Netscape and a graphical World Wide Web; thus they have a thorough understanding of the cultural shifts the Internet has produced and been affected by! and they have a keen appreciation for the potential of the medium. Most scholarship on cyberculture has repeatedly emphasized that our offline selves determine how we are able to use technology! that real life affects what we do online. This volume is an attempt to reverse that discussion! to demonstrate that how we live online affects our lives offline as well. A virtual public is not an unreal one. Zusammenfassung A collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine how the internet has affected conceptions of community and public life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The Reality of VirtualityPart 1. Users and the Structure of TechnologyThe Net Effect: The Public's Fear and the Public Sphere! by Gilbert B. RodmanThe Internet! Community Definition! and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction! by Paul Schiff BermanArchitectural Design for Online Environments! by Anna CicognaniCommunity! Affect! and the Virtual: The Politics of Cyberspace! by J. Macgregor WiseSecuring Trust Online: Wisdom or Oxymoron?! by Helen NissenbaumPart 2. Technology and the Structure of CommunitiesTV Predicts Its Future: On Convergence and Cybertelevision! by Tara McPhersonWomen Making Multimedia: Possibilities for Feminist Activism! by Mary E. Hocks and Anne BalsamoIs It Art! in Fact?! by Mitch GellerMaking the Virtual Real: University-Community Partnerships! by Alison Regan and John ZuernWhere Do You Want to Learn Tomorrow? The Paradox of the Virtual University! by Collin Gifford BrookeCommunity-Based Software! Participatory Theater: Models for Inviting Participation in Learning and Artistic Production! by Susan Claire WarshauerCommunication! Community! Consumption: An Ethnographic Exploration of an Online City! by David SilverCan Technology Transform? Experimenting with Wired Communities! by Mark A. Jones ...

Product details

• Authors: Beth Kolko, Beth E. Kolko
• Assisted by: Beth Kolko (Editor), Beth E. Kolko (Editor), Kolko Beth E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.07.2003
• EAN: 9780231118279
• ISBN: 978-0-231-11827-9
• No. of pages: 383
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > IT; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Virtual Reality, History of Ideas, PERFORMING ARTS / Television / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Dance & Other Performing Arts