Virtual publics : policy and community in an electronic age /

Virtual publics : policy and community in an electronic age / edited by Beth E. Kolko. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2003. - xi, 396 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

"Chapter 5 was originally published in 8I Boston University Law Review 635 (June 2001)".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Net effect: the public's fear and the public sphere / Internet, community definition, and the social meaning of legal jurisdiction / Architectural design for online environments / Community, affect, and the virtual: the politics of cyberspace / Securing trust online: wisdom or oxymoron? / TV predicts its future: on convergence and cybertelevision / Women making multimedia: possibilities for feminist activism / Is it art, in fact? / Making the virtual real: university-community partnerships / Where do you want to learn tomorrow? the paradox of the virtual university / Community-based software, participatory theater: models for inviting participation in learning and artistic production / Communication, community, consumption: an ethnographic exploration of an online city / Can technology transform? experimenting with wired communities / Gilbert B. Rodman -- Paul Schiff Berman -- Anna Cicognani -- J. MacGregor Wise -- Helen Nissenbaum -- Tara McPherson -- Mary E. Hocks and Anne Balsamo -- Mitch Geller -- Alison Regan and John Zuern -- Collin Gifford Brooke -- Susan Claire Warshauer -- David Silver -- Mark A. Jones.

0231118260 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231118279 (paper)

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Internet--Social aspects.
Information technology--Social aspects.
Information society.

HM 851 / .V576 2003