Virtual culture : identity and communication in cybersociety / edited by Steven G. Jones. - London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 1997. - x, 262 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The internet and its social landscape / Steven G. Jones -- The individual within the collective : virtual ideology and the realization of collective principles / Jan Fernback -- Virtual commonality : looking for India on the Internet / Ananda Mitra -- Structural relations, electronic media, and social change : the public electronic network and the homeless / Joseph Schmitz -- Why we argue about virtual community : a case study of the phish.net fan community / Nessim Watson -- Gay men and computer communication : a discourse of sex and identity in cyberspace / David F. Shaw -- Virtual community in a telepresence environment / Margaret L. McLaughlin, Kerry K. Osborne, and Nicole B. Ellison -- (Re)-fashioning the techno-erotic woman : gender and textuality in the cybercultural matrix / Dawn Dietrich -- Approaching the radical other : the discursive culture of cyberhate / Susan Zickmund -- Punishing the persona : correctional strategies for the virtual offender / Richard C. MacKinnon -- Civil society, political economy, and the Internet / Harris Breslow.

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Internet--Social aspects.
Computer networks--Social aspects.
Telematics--Social aspects.
Cyberspace--Social aspects.
Online identities.
Communication.
Computers and civilization.
Communities.

TK 5105.5 / V819 1997

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