Virtual Publics

Policy and Community in an Electronic Age

By: Beth Kolko (Editor)

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Hardcover | 30 July 2003 | Edition Number 1

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How does virtuality affect reality? Fourteen experts consider this question from the perspective of law, architecture, rhetoric, philosophy, and art. Nearly all of the contributors have been online since before Netscape and a graphical World Wide Web; thus they have a thorough understanding of the cultural shifts the Internet has produced and been affected by, and they have a keen appreciation for the potential of the medium. Most scholarship on cyberculture has repeatedly emphasized that our offline selves determine how we are able to use technology, that real life affects what we do online. This volume is an attempt to reverse that discussion, to demonstrate that how we live online affects our lives offline as well. A virtual public is not an unreal one.

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"Virtual Publics" advances our understanding of the Internet's impact on culture. Its contributors clearly understand and question the complicated, often opaque, relationships and interactions that new media has created. As a sharp and nuanced examination of the fuzzy border between life online and life offline, "Virtual Publics" is a singular contribution to the field of Internet studies.

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List of Contributors	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Introduction. The Reality of Virtuality	p. 1
Users and the Structure of Technology
The Net Effect: The Public's Fear and the Public Sphere	p. 9
The Internet, Community Definition, and the Social Meaning of Legal Jurisdiction	p. 49
Architectural Design for Online Environments	p. 83
Community, Affect, and the Virtual: The Politics of Cyberspace	p. 112
Securing Trust Online: Wisdom or Oxymoron?	p. 134
Technology and the Structure of Communities
TV Predicts Its Future: On Convergence and Cybertelevision	p. 173
Women Making Multimedia: Possibilities for Feminist Activism	p. 192
Is It Art, in Fact?	p. 215
Making the Virtual Real: University-Community Partnerships	p. 239
Where Do You Want to Learn Tomorrow? The Paradox of the Virtual University	p. 265
Community-Based Software, Participatory Theater: Models for Inviting Participation in Learning and Artistic Production	p. 286
Communication, Community, Consumption: An Ethnographic Exploration of an Online City	p. 327
Can Technology Transform? Experimenting with Wired Communities	p. 354
Index	p. 385
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