TY  - BOOK
AU  - Losh,Elizabeth M.
TI  - Virtualpolitik: an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes 
SN  - 9780262123044 (hard cover : alk. paper)
AV  - JK 468 .A8 L67 2009 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, MA 
KW  - Information society
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - United States
KW  - Information technology
KW  - Internet
KW  - Communication
N1  - 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
ER  -