Cybersociety 2.0 : revisiting computer-mediated communication and community

Author(s)

• Jones, Steve

Bibliographic Information

Cybersociety 2.0 : revisiting computer-mediated communication and community

Steven G. Jones, editor

（New media cultures）

Sage Publications, c1998

• : cloth.
• : pbk.

Other Title

Cyber society two point zero

Uniform Title

CyberSociety

Note

Rev. ed. of: CyberSociety. c1995

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Cybersociety 2.0, the new edition of Steven G. Jones's Cybersociety, is also rooted in criticism and analysis of computer-mediated technologies to assist readers in becoming critically aware of the hype and hopes pinned on computer-mediated communication and the cultures that are emerging among Internet users. Both books are products of a particular moment in time and serve as snapshots of the concerns and issues that surround the burgeoning new technologies of communication. After a brief introduction to the history of computer-mediated communication, each chapter in this volume specifically highlights specific cyber "societies" and how computer-mediated communication effects the notion of self and its relationship to the community. Contributors probe issues of community, standards of conduct, communication, the means of fixing identity, knowledge, information, and the exercise of power in social relations. They also question how traditional sociological inquiry can adapt itself to most effectively study computer-mediated social formations. Both timely and thought-provoking, Cybersociety 2.0 belongs on the bookshelf of students and scholars in fields of communication, popular culture, American studies, and mass communication.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Steven Jones Information, Internet and Community - Steven Jones Notes toward an Understanding of Community in the Information Age The Emergence of On-line Community - Nancy K Baym Designing Genres for New Media - Philip E Agre Social, Economic and Political Contexts Feminist Fictions of Future Technology - Cheris Kramarae Text as Mask - Brenda Danet Gender, Play, and Performance on the Internet Dating on the Net - Lynn Schofield Clark Teens and the Rise of 'Pure' Relationships Virtual Ethnicity - Mark Poster Tribal Identity in an Age of Global Communications Dissolution and Fragmentation - Beth Kolko and Elizabeth Reid Problems in On-line Communities

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Details

• NCID: BA37648708
• ISBN:
  • 0761914617
  • 0761914625
• LCCN: 98008984
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Thousand Oaks, Calif.
• Pages/Volumes: xvii, 238 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : TK5105.5
  • DC21 : 303.48/33
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Computer networks -- Social aspects
  • LCSH : Communication
  • LCSH : Computers and civilization
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA33313027