Virtual Publics
Policy and Community in an Electronic Age
Published on 30. July 2003
Book
Hardback
383 pages
978-0-231-11826-2 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
652 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-231-11826-2 (9780231118262)
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07/2003
Columbia University Press
€43.33
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Person
Beth Kolko is an associate professor in the Department of Technical Communication and director of the doctoral program at the University of Washington.
Content
Introduction. The Reality of Virtuality Part 1. Users and the Structure of Technology The Net Effect: The Public's Fear and the Public Sphere, by Gilbert B. Rodman The Internet, Community Definition, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction, by Paul Schiff Berman Architectural Design for Online Environments, by Anna Cicognani Community, Affect, and the Virtual: The Politics of Cyberspace, by J. Macgregor Wise Securing Trust Online: Wisdom or Oxymoron?, by Helen Nissenbaum Part 2. Technology and the Structure of Communities TV Predicts Its Future: On Convergence and Cybertelevision, by Tara McPherson Women Making Multimedia: Possibilities for Feminist Activism, by Mary E. Hocks and Anne Balsamo Is It Art, in Fact?, by Mitch Geller Making the Virtual Real: University-Community Partnerships, by Alison Regan and John Zuern Where Do You Want to Learn Tomorrow? The Paradox of the Virtual University, by Collin Gifford Brooke Community-Based Software, Participatory Theater: Models for Inviting Participation in Learning and Artistic Production, by Susan Claire Warshauer Communication, Community, Consumption: An Ethnographic Exploration of an Online City, by David Silver Can Technology Transform? Experimenting with Wired Communities, by Mark A. Jones