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Virtualpolitik : an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes
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Virtualpolitik : an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes

Author: Elizabeth Losh
Publisher: Cambridge (Mass.) ; London : MIT Press, cop. 2009.
Edition/Format:   Book : English
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Government media making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences.

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Elizabeth Losh
ISBN: 9780262123044 0262123045
OCLC Number: 495259445
Description: 1 v. (xi-414 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Introduction: A fable of politics, community, and virtuality --
Digital monsters : show and tell on Capitol Hill --
Hacking Aristotle : what is digital rhetoric? --
The desert of the unreal : democracy and military-funded videogames and simulations --
The war from the Web : an atlas of conflict, government, and citizenship --
Power points : the virtual state and its discontents --
Whistle-blowers : traditional epistolary discourse and electronic communication --
Submit and render : digital satires about surveillance and authentication --
Reading room : the nation-state and digital library initiatives --
Waiting room : serious games about national security and public health --
The past as prologue : cultural politics and the founding narratives of information science.
Other Titles: Introduction: A fable of politics, community, and virtuality.
Digital monsters : show and tell on Capitol Hill.
Hacking Aristotle : what is digital rhetoric?
Desert of the unreal : democracy and military-funded videogames and simulations.
War from the Web : an atlas of conflict, government, and citizenship.
Power points : the virtual state and its discontents.
Whistle-blowers : traditional epistolary discourse and electronic communication.
Submit and render : digital satires about surveillance and authentication.
Reading room : the nation-state and digital library initiatives.
Waiting room : serious games about national security and public health.
Past as prologue : cultural politics and the founding narratives of information science.
Responsibility: Elizabeth Losh.
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