Cybersoceity?

Hobbes

Anyone read this? Is it any good? Author is Stephen G something.

Only reason I'm wondering, someone over here was telling me thier friend got a job in some startup and they won't tell people who join what the project is until at least a week after they have joined and after they had read that book.

Trojan

Amazon.com
Not long after William Gibson hit the charts with his cyberpunk fiction, especially the groundbreaking (or Web-busting) Neuromancer, discussions were buzzing with ideas about how technology affects our culture and our beliefs. The essays that Steven Jones has collected explore cybersociety, online cultures, and their relationship not only to one another but also to traditional societies. The experiences of typically marginalized cultures--"cyberhate," Third World representation, gay identity in cyberspace, and punishment of "virtual offenders"--are also explored, as in Ananda Mitra's essay, "Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet." Virtual Culture is a cutting-edge book that addresses the effects and defects of discourse and community on the Web. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title

Book News, Inc.
Communications specialists present 11 essays exploring the nature of social and civic life online, and what it is about life offline that makes so many people so intent on living online. They discuss virtual ideology and the realization of collective principles. the public electronic network and the homeless, gay men and computer communication, virtual community in a telepresence environment, gender and textuality in the cybercultural matrix, and correctional strategies for the virtual offender


CyberSociety 2.0 : Revisiting Computer-Mediated Communication and Community
Steve Jones (Editor) Steven G. Jones (Editor)

bn.com Price: $51.95
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 0761914617
Publisher: Sage Publications, Incorporated
Pub. Date: July 1998
bn.com sales rank: 398,311

From Booknews
Assists readers in becoming aware of the hype and hopes pinned on computer-mediated communication technologies and of the cultures that are emerging among Internet users. Highlights specific cyber societies and how computer-mediated communication affects the notion of self and its relation to community, and examines issues of community, conduct, fixing identity, and the exercise of power in social relations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.


FROM THE BOOK


Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1 Information, Internet, and Community: Notes Toward an Understanding of Community in the Information Age 1
2 The Emergence of On-Line Community 35
3 Designing Genres for New Media: Social, Economic, and Political Contexts 69
4 Feminist Fictions of Future Technology 100
5 Text as Mask: Gender, Play, and Performance on the Internet 129
6 Dating on the Net: Teens and the Rise of "Pure" Relationships 159
7 Virtual Ethnicity: Tribal Identity in an Age of Global Communications 184
8 Dissolution and Fragmentation: Problems in On-Line Communities 212
Index 231
About the Contributors 236