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David Porter (Editor)

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Publication Date: February 11, 1997 | ISBN-10: 0415916836 | ISBN-13: 978-0415916837

The internet has recently grown from a fringe cultural phenomenon to a significant site of cultural production and transformation. Internet Culture maps this new domain of language, politics and identity, locating it within the histories of communication and the public sphere. Internet Culture offers a critical interrogation of the sustaining myths of the virtual world and of the implications of the current mass migration onto the electronic frontier. Among the topics discussed in Internet Culture are the virtual spaces and places created by the citizens of the Net and their claims to the hotly contested notion of "virtual community"; the virtual bodies that occupy such spaces; and the desires that animate these bodies. The contributors also examine the communication medium behind theworlds of the Net, analyzing the rhetorical conventions governing online discussion, literary antecedents,and potential pedagogical applications.

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...an important and well-written anthology on cyberculture. ...the collection tackles important issues regarding online communities and identities....
–History Computer Review

Porter's [book] treats culture in terms of artistic expression...Porter only says that the essays are intended to examine the characteristic ways of being and interacting in the Internet's public spaces..
– Choice, October 1997

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David Porter teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the editor of Between Men and Feminism,also published by Routledge.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
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electronic essay, dialogized heteroglossia, sufficient human feeling, mud environment, dead information, modern public sphere, virtual sex, virtual community, virtual communities, middle landscape, total presence

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New York, Howard Rheingold, San Francisco, University of Minnesota Press, William Gibson, Data Trash, Donna Haraway, Middle Ages, Harvard University Press, Pavel Curtis, Bernard of Clairvaux, Bill Millard, Cyborg Manifesto, Jean Baudrillard, Oxford University Press, Star Trek, The Electronic Word, Bruce Robbins, David Williams, Elizabeth Reid, Frederick Jackson Turner, Internet Relay Chat, Internet World, Joseph Ransdell, Julian Dibbell

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The Virtual Community: Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier by Howard Rheingold on 5 pages
Computer Networks: Protocols, Standards and Interface (2nd Edition) by Uyless D. Black on page 36, and Back Matter
The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America by Leo Marx on page 58, and page 67

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