Virtualpolitik : an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes / Elizabeth Losh.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge, MA c2009.Description: xi, 414 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780262123044 (hard cover : alk. paper)
  • 0262123045 (hard cover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • JK 468 .A8 L67 2009
Contents:
Introduction: A fable of politics, community, and virtuality -- Digital monsters : show and tell on Capitol Hill -- Hacking Aristotle : what is digital rhetoric? -- The desert of the unreal : democracy and military-funded videogames and simulations -- The war from the Web : an atlas of conflict, government, and citizenship -- Power points : the virtual state and its discontents -- Whistle-blowers : traditional epistolary discourse and electronic communication -- Submit and render : digital satires about surveillance and authentication -- Reading room : the nation-state and digital library initiatives -- Waiting room : serious games about national security and public health -- The past as prologue : cultural politics and the founding narratives of information science.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-397) and index.

Introduction: A fable of politics, community, and virtuality -- Digital monsters : show and tell on Capitol Hill -- Hacking Aristotle : what is digital rhetoric? -- The desert of the unreal : democracy and military-funded videogames and simulations -- The war from the Web : an atlas of conflict, government, and citizenship -- Power points : the virtual state and its discontents -- Whistle-blowers : traditional epistolary discourse and electronic communication -- Submit and render : digital satires about surveillance and authentication -- Reading room : the nation-state and digital library initiatives -- Waiting room : serious games about national security and public health -- The past as prologue : cultural politics and the founding narratives of information science.

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