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Virtual Politics

Identity and Community in Cyberspace
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Virtual Politics is a critical overview of the new - digital - body politic, with new technologies framing the discussion of key themes in social theory. This book shows how these new technologies are altering the nature of identity and agency, the relation of self to other, and the structure of community and political representation.
David Holmes is a Lecturer in Communications and Media, Monash University
Introduction PART ONE: THE SELF, IDENTITY AND BODY IN THE AGE OF THE VIRTUAL Virtual Identity - David Holmes Communities of Broadcast, Communities of Interactivity Virtual Worlds/Virtual Bodies - Cathryn Vasseleu Beyond Being Digital - Nicola Green The Semiotics of Technics An Ontology of Digital Domains - Chris Chesher The Subject of Virtual Reality - Simon Cooper Plenitude vs Alienation This Abstract Body - Paul James and Freya Carkeek PART TWO: POLITICS AND COMMUNITY IN VIRTUAL WORLDS Virtual Urban Futures - Michael Ostwald Community in the Abstract - Michele Willson A Political and Ethical Dilemma? What Space Is Cyberspace? - Mark Nunes The Internet and Virtuality Always Already Virtual - Patricia Wise Feminist Politics in Cyberspace Virtual Reality and the New Age - Chris Zigiuras The Technologisation of the Sacred Cyberdemocracy - Mark Poster Internet and the Public Sphere
`Contains valuable insights for scholars teaching and researching in this field' - Political Science
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