Virtualpolitik : an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes - Losh, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mathews) (Cambridge, MA, 2009)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-397) and index.
Keywords: Information society -- Political aspects -- United States; Information technology -- Political aspects -- United States; Internet -- Political aspects -- United States; Communication -- Political aspects -- United States