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| Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tim Jordan |
| ISBN: | 041517077X 9780415170772 0415170788 9780415170789 |
| OCLC Number: | 39313467 |
| Description: | vii, 254 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Power and cyberspace -- Cyberpower -- Max Weber: power as a possession -- Barry Barnes: power as social order -- Michel Foucault: power as domination -- Cyberspace and the matrix -- Cyberspace: the science fiction vision -- Cyberspace: the matrix of computers -- History of a technology -- Size, users and uses -- Barlovian cyberspace -- The virtual individual -- Axes of individual cyberpower: identity, hierarchy, information -- Identity fluidity -- Anti-hierarchical -- A world made of information -- Cyberpower at the individual -- Cyberpower as a possession -- Cyberpolitics: access and rights -- The virtual social I: the social in cyberspace -- The social and the individual -- Technopower -- The spiral of technopower -- Information overload -- The complete spiral -- The technopower elite -- The virtual social II: the social between online and offline -- Cyberspace and production, consumption and politics in information societies -- Production -- Consumption -- Politics -- The informational space of flows -- Online and offline -- The virtual imaginary -- The collective imagination -- Visions of heaven ... -- Cyborgs -- Information codes -- ... and hell -- Superpanopticon: cyborgs, minutiae and fear of cyberspace -- Fear itself -- Cyberspace's imaginary -- Cyberpower -- Relations between three types of cyberpower -- The first war of cyberspace: elites and grassroots. |
| Responsibility: | Tim Jordan. |
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Abstract:
This volume covers key concepts such as power and cyberspace, the virtual individual, society in cyberspace, and imagination and the internet. The author surfs through a wealth of material, including original research in interviews and statistical analysis, to provide an analysis of the politics and culture of cyberspace. Drawing on examples from cross-gendered virtual selves to the meaning of Bill Gates, he questions who actually governs cyberspace and what powers the individual can control while there. Using case studies from the rich mythology of the electronic frontier, from cyberrape to total surveillance, the author also addresses how cyberspace is remaking global society.
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- Cyberspace -- Social aspects.
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- Télématique -- Aspect social.
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