Overview

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. Both books are products of a particular moment in time, and serve as snapshots of the concerns and issues that surround the burgeoning new technologies of communication. After a brief introduction to the history of computer-mediated communication, each essay in this volume highlights specific cyber `societies' and how computer-mediated communication affects the notion of self and its relation to community. Contributors probe issues of community, standards of conduct, communication, means of fixing identity, knowledge, information and the exercise of power in social relations.

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Author:   Steven Jones
Publisher:   SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint:   SAGE Publications Inc
Volume:   v. 2
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.420kg
ISBN:  

9780761914624

ISBN 10:   0761914625
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   26 August 1998
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

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

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Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.

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