Overview

"The internet has grown in recent years from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps the contours of this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the interconnected histories of technologies of communication and the public sphere. Neither a user's guide to the Net nor a futuristic manifesto, Internet Culture offers instead a critical interrogation of the sustaining myths of the virtual world and of the implications of the current mass migration onto the electronic frontier. Among the topics discussed in Internet Culture are the virtual spaces and places created by the citizens of the Net, and crucially, their claims to the hotly contested notion of ""virtual community"". The contributors also examine the communication medium behind the worlds of the Net."

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Author:   David Porter
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.550kg
ISBN:  

9780415916844

ISBN 10:   0415916844
Pages:   298
Publication Date:   25 February 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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"""...an important and well-written anthology on cyberculture. ...the collection tackles important issues regarding online communities and identities..."" -- History Computer Review ""Porter's [book] treats culture in terms of artistic expression...Porter only says that the essays are intended to examine the ""characteristic ways of being and interacting"" in the Internet's public spaces."" -- Choice, October 1997"

...an important and well-written anthology on cyberculture. ...the collection tackles important issues regarding online communities and identities... -- History Computer Review Porter's [book] treats culture in terms of artistic expression...Porter only says that the essays are intended to examine the characteristic ways of being and interacting in the Internet's public spaces. -- Choice, October 1997

... an important and well-written anthology on cyberculture. ...the collection tackles important issues regarding online communities and identities.... <br>- History Computer Review <br> Porter's [book] treats culture in terms of artistic expression...Porter only says that the essays are intended to examine the characteristic ways of being and interacting in the Internet's public spaces.. <br>- Choice, October 1997 <br>

... an important and well-written anthology on cyberculture. ...the collection tackles important issues regarding online communities and identities.... - History Computer Review Porter's [book] treats culture in terms of artistic expression...Porter only says that the essays are intended to examine the characteristic ways of being and interacting in the Internet's public spaces.. - Choice, October 1997

Author Information

David Porter teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the editor of Between Men and Feminism,also published by Routledge.

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