Virtual Culture

Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.

• Introduction - Steven G JonesThe Internet and Its Social Landscape - Steven G JonesThe Individual Within the Collective - Jan FernbackVirtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective PrinciplesVirtual Commonality - Ananda MitraLooking for India on the InternetStructural Relations, Electronic Media and Social Change - Joseph SchmitzThe Public Electronic Network and the HomelessWhy We Argue about Virtual Community - Nessim WatsonA Case Study of Phish.Net Fan CommunityGay Men and Computer Communication - David ShawA Discourse of Sex and Identity in CyberspaceVirtual Community in a Telepresence Environment - Margaret L McLaughlin, Kerry K Osborne and Nicole B Ellison(Re)-Fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman - Dawn DietrichGender and Textuality in the Cybercultural MatrixApproaching the Radical Other - Susan ZickmundThe Discursive Culture of CyberhatePunishing the Persona - Richard MacKinnonCorrectional Strategies for the Virtual OffenderCivil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet - Harris Breslow

Useful in introductory to media course. Does of good job of explaining how virtual culture impacts communications discourses.