Digital Humanities and the Cyberspace Decade, 1990-2001

Claire Warwick is a Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Durham University, UK.

• 1. Introduction: There is a world elsewhere….2. A consensual hallucination- imagining cyberspace3. Virtual communities: cyberspace before the web4. Wired Women: from a bird on the list to a rape in cyberspace5. A design for life: building digital identity on the World Wide Web6. Online everything: cyberspace and the Triumph of virtuality7. ‘Ceci Tuera Cela’: digital textuality and the death of the book8. Cyber libertarians: freedom on the electronic frontier9. ‘Not welcome among us’: democracy and the governance of cyberspace10. Conclusion: the reality of cyberspaceBibliography

An important contribution [that] effectively historicizes the transition from the decade of the 1990s, when internet culture was a novelty to some, through the present moment, when things are quite otherwise.