Overview

This anthology brings together studies on computer-mediated electronic space and social interaction and thus expands the available research on cyberspace and its social, cultural and psychological impact. Section 1 addresses broad issues and theoretical positions relevant to this new area of study, provides a theoretical and philosophical basis for the more specific analyses of cyberspace, and links those analyses to larger issues in the field of communication. Section 2 covers the functions of cyberspace, especially the ways in which cyberspace is used as a functional alternative to a place or set of places. Section 3 covers the form that cyperspace takes in comparison to the forms of physical space and other types of mediated space such as writing, print, and film. Finally, section 4 covers the forms of communication and characteristic of cyberspace, the emergence of a new cyberculture, and the ways in which it alters more traditional meanings of the self or subject, sexuality, and community.

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Author:   Strate ,  Stephanie Jacobson ,  Ronald Jacobson ,  Stephanie B. Gibson (University of Baltimore, USA)
Publisher:   Hampton Press
Imprint:   Hampton Press
Weight:   0.333kg
ISBN:  

9781572730502

ISBN 10:   1572730501
Pages:   368
Publication Date:   30 April 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Surveying the Electronic Landscape - An Introduction to Communication and Cyberspace, Lance Strate et al. Part 1 Cyberspace in Perspective - the Theoretical Context: From Locomotion to Telecommunication, or Paths of Safety, Streets of Gore, Gary Gumpert and Susan J. Drucker; CyberWalden - the Inner Face of Interface, John M. Phelan; Who Shall Control Cyberspace?, James R. Beniger; Don't Fence Me In - Copyright, Property and Technology, Neil Kleinman; Back to Plato's Cave - Virtual Reality, Herbert Zettl; Dramatism and Virtual Reality and the Redefinition of Self, Jay David Bolter. Part 2 Function - Cybernetworks and Cyberplaces as Alternative to Physical Location and Transportation: From ARPAnet to the Internet - a Cultural Clash and its Implications in Framing the Debate on the Information Superhighway, Mark Giese; ""Are They Building on Off-Ramp in My Neighbourhood?"" and Other Questions Concerning Public Interest In and Access to the Information Superhighway, Ron Jacobson; Killing Time - the New Frontier of Cyberspace Capitalism, Joseph Barrett; Constructing the Virtual Organisation - Using a Multimedia Simulation for Communication Education, Terri Toles Patkin; Playing at Community - Multi-User Dungeons and Social Interaction in Cyberspace, Michael P. Beaubien. Part 3 Form - Virtual Reality and Hypermedia as New Kinds of Space and Navigation: Cyberspace - Creating Paradoxes for the Ecology of Self, Sue Barnes; The Cybergym - Virtual reality in the Health Club, Elizabeth Weiss; Experience in the Age of Digital Reproduction, Margaret Cassidy; Getting Over the Edge, Stuart Moulthrop; Pedagogy and Hypertext, Stephanie B. Gibson; Cinematic Representations of Cyberspace, Paul J. Lippert. Part 4 Meaning - Cybercommunication and Cyberculture: Charting the Codes of Cyberspace - a Rhetoric of Electronic Mail, Judith Yaross Lee; What's Fuelling the Flames in Cyberspace? - a Social Influence Model, Philip A. Thompson; Technologies, Relations and Selves, Richard H. Cutler; Forgetting the Body - Cybersex and Identity, Mark Lipton; Cybertime, Lance Strate; Epilogue - Cyberspace, Shmyberspace, Neil Postman."

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