Virtual Publics - Policy and Community in an Electronic Age

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-231-11827-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 383 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 562 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kolko, Beth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Soziologie und Psychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Medien & Gesellschaft, Medienwirkungsforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Politische Soziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Kommunikation und Partizipation

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. The Reality of VirtualityPart 1. Users and the Structure of Technology The 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 Communities TV 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

Über Autor(innen)

Beth Kolko is an associate professor in the Department of Technical Communication and director of the doctoral program at the University of Washington.