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Internet Culture (Hardcover)
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Internet Culture (Hardcover)
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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 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 virtual bodies that occupy such spaces; and the
desires (whether for pleasure or transcendence) that animate these
bodies. The contributors also examine the communication medium
behind the worlds of the Net, analyzing the rhetorical conventions
governing online discussion, literary antecedents, and potential
pedagogical applications. The book concludes by looking at the
dynamics of power that have shaped the spaces of public discourse;
in a new medium that prides itself on its democratizing tendancies,
it is especially important to cast a critical eye on the social and
political assumptions that sustain it.
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