Virtual Politics: Identity and Community in Cyberspace / Edition 1

by David Holmes

Overview

This incisive examination of identity, community and cyberspace shows how new technologies are altering the nature of identity, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.‘Contains valuable insights for scholars teaching and researching in this field' - Political Science

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761956099
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	02/06/1998
Series:	Politics and Culture series , #448
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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

Editorial Reviews

‘Contains valuable insights for scholars teaching and researching in this field' - Political Science

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