Cybersociety 2.0: Revisiting Computer-Mediated Community and Technology

ISBN-13: 9780761914624 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str.

Steven G. Jones

Opis

Like its predecessor, the bestselling CyberSociety, published in 1994, Cybersociety 2.0 is rooted in criticism and analysis of computer-mediated technologies to assist readers in becoming critically aware of the hype and hopes pinned on computer-mediated communication and of the cultures that are emerging among Internet users.

Spis treści

Introduction - Steven Jones
Information, Internet and Community - Steven Jones
Notes toward an Understanding of Community in the Information Age
The Emergence of On-line Community - Nancy K Baym
Designing Genres for New Media - Philip E Agre
Social, Economic and Political Contexts
Feminist Fictions of Future Technology - Cheris Kramarae
Text as Mask - Brenda Danet
Gender, Play, and Performance on the Internet
Dating on the Net - Lynn Schofield Clark
Teens and the Rise of 'Pure' Relationships
Virtual Ethnicity - Mark Poster
Tribal Identity in an Age of Global Communications
Dissolution and Fragmentation - Beth Kolko and Elizabeth Reid
Problems in On-line Communities

O autorze

Steve Jones is professor and head of the Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is author/editor of numerous books, including Doing Internet Research, The Encyclopedia of New Media, CyberSociety, and Virtual Culture. He is co-founder and president of the Association of Internet Researchers and co-editor of New Media & Society, an international journal of research on new media, technology, and culture. He also edits New Media Cultures, a series of books on culture and technology for Sage Publications, and Digital Formations, a series of books on new media for Peter Lang Publishers.