ISBN:
9780761914624
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (257 p)
Series Statement:
New Media Cultures
Parallel Title:
Print version Cybersociety 2.0 : Revisiting Computer-Mediated Community and Technology
DDC:
303.4834
Keywords:
Computer networks ; Social aspects
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Communication
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Computers and civilization
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Like its predecessor, the best-selling CyberSociety, published in 1994, Cybersociety 2.0 is rooted in criticism and analysis of computer-mediated technologies to assist readers in becoming critically aware of the hype and hopes pinned on computer-mediated communication and of the cultures that are emerging among Internet users. Both books are products of a particular moment in time, and serve as snapshots of the concerns and issues that surround the burgeoning new technologies of communication. After a brief introduction to the history of computer-mediated communication, each essay in thi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Information, Internet, and Community: Notes Toward an Understanding of Community in the Information Age; Chapter 2 - The Emergence of On-Line Community; Chapter 3 - Designing Genres for New Media: Social, Economic, and Political Contexts; Chapter 4 - Feminist Fictions of Future Technology; Chapter 5 - Text as Mask: Gender, Play, and Performance on the Internet; Chapter 6 - Dating on the Net: Teens and the Rise of "Pure" Relationships; Chapter 7 - Virtual Ethnicity: Tribal Identity in an Age of Global Communications
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 8 - Dissolution and Fragmentation: Problems in On-Line CommunitiesIndex; About the Contributors;
Note:
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