Community in the Digital Age

Philosophy and Practice
Herausgeber: Barney, Darin; Feenberg, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

Community in the Digital Age features the latest, most challenging work in an important and fast-changing field, providing a forum for some of the leading North American social scientists and philosophers concerned with the social and political implications of this new technology. Their provocative arguments touch on all sides of the debate surrounding the Internet, community, and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Juli 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9780742529595
• ISBN-10: 0742529592
• Artikelnr.: 21663412

Autorenporträt

Edited by Andrew Feenberg and Darin Barney - Contributions by Phillip E. Agre; Maria Bakardjieva; Bruce Bimber; Albert Borgmann; Hubert Dreyfus; Amitai Etzioni; Andrew Feenberg; Tetsuji Iseda; Diane Elizabeth Johnson; Richard Kahn; Douglas Kellner; Yumiko

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 3 1 Consumers or Citizens? The Online Community
Debate Part 4 Part I: The Question of Community and Digital Technology
Chapter 5 2 The Vanishing Table, or Community in a World That is No World
Chapter 6 3 Is the Internet the Solution to the Problem of Community?
Chapter 7 4 Nihilism on the Information Highway: Anonymity versus
commitment in the Present Age Chapter 8 5 Workers as Cyborgs: Labor and
Networked Computers Chapter 9 6 Our Split Screens Part 10 Part II Observing
Online Communities Chapter 11 7 Virtual Togetherness: An Everyday Life
Perspective Chapter 12 8 Gender and the Commodification of Community:
Women.com and gURL.com Chapter 13 9 Ethics on the Internet: A Comparative
Study of Japan, the United States, and Singapore Part 14 Part III The
Democratic Potential of the Internet Chapter 15 10 Virtually Democratic:
Online Communities and Internet Activism Chapter 16 11 The Practical
Republic: Social Skills and the Progress of Citizenship Chapter 17 12 On
Virtual, Democratic Communities Chapter 18 13 The Internet and Political
Transformation Revisited Chapter 19 14 Towards Civic Intelligence: Building
a New Sociotechnological Infrastructure