Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 336
Trim: 9 x 6
978-0-7425-2959-5 • Paperback • July 2004 • $71.00 • (£55.00)
978-0-7425-7443-4 • eBook • July 2004 • $67.00 • (£52.00)
Andrew Feenberg is the Canada Research Chair in the Philosophy of Technology at Simon Fraser University. Darin Barney is assistant professor of communication at McGill University.
Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 3 1 Consumers or Citizens? The Online Community Debate
Chapter 4
Chapter 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
Chapter 10
Chapter 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
Chapter 14
Chapter 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
A stimulating contribution from many of the world's leading commentators to the controversies surrounding the social, political, and cultural importance of online community networks.....
— Brian D. Loader
Community in the Digital Age refreshingly updates and extends the debates about who we are when we are online. Smartly linking offline and online realities and interpretations, the authors of the essays collected here provide us with new and clear understandings of community in the information age. This book may well be considered the harbinger of the next generation of community studies....
— Steve Jones
If it's a philosophical discussion of how community is changing in the digital age that is needed, you need go no further than Andrew Feenberg and Darin Barney's collection Community in the Digital Age: it updates and extends debates about who we are when we're online, discusses differences between online and offline realities, and provides critical assessments of the Internet's relationships to public life. A challenging survey of one of the fastest-changing relationships in modern times, Community in the Digital Age should be required reading...
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