Virtual Politics

Identity and Community in Cyberspace
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-0-7619-5610-5
Verlag: Sage Publications UK

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 398 g

Reihe: Politics and Culture series

Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Holmes, David

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik Virtuelle Realität, Erweiterte Realität
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Gruppen & Klassen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Differentielle Psychologie, Persönlichkeitspsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

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

Über Autor(innen)

Holmes, David
David Holmes is a Lecturer in Communications and Media, Monash University