1st Edition

Internet Culture

Edited By David Porter Copyright 1997
298 Pages
by Routledge

298 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the histories of communication and the public sphere. Internet Culture offers a critical interrogation of the sustaining myths of the virtual world and of the... Read more
Part 1 Virtual Communities; Chapter 1 An Archaeology of Cyberspaces, Shawn P. Wilbur; Chapter 2 Community and Identity in the Electronic Village, Derek Foster; Chapter 3 Usenet Communities and the Cultural Politics of Information, MicheleTepper; Chapter 4 Cyberspace and Place, Dave Healy; Part 2 Virtual Bodies; Chapter 5 Flesh Made Word, Shannon McRae; Chapter 6 Virtually Embodied, Mizuko Ito; Chapter 7 The Postmodern Paradiso, Jeffrey Fisher; Part 3 Language, Writing, Rhetoric; Chapter 8 Spam, Charles J. Stivale; Chapter 9 I Flamed Freud, William B. Millard; Chapter 10 IMHO, Brian A. Connery; Chapter 11 Essayistic Messages, James A. Knapp; Part 4 Politics and the Public Sphere; Chapter 12 Cyberdemocracy Internet and the Public Sphere, Mark Poster; Chapter 13 Progressive Politics, Electronic Individualism and the Myth of Virtual Community, Joseph Lockard; Chapter 14 Reading, Writing, Hypertext Democratic Politics in the Virtual Classroom, Joseph Tabbi; Chapter 15 Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture, Jon Stratton;

Biography

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.

"...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