Communication and cyberspace : social interaction in an electronic environment / edited by Lance Strate, Ronald Jacobson, Stephanie B. Gibson.
Contributor(s): Strate, Lance
| Jacobson, Ronald L | Gibson, Stephanie B.
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BookSeries: Hampton Press communication seriesCommunication and public space: Publisher: Cresskill, N.J. : Hampton Press, 1996Description: xii, 404 p. ; 24 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 1572730501 (m) (hbk); 157273051X (v) (pbk.).Subject(s): Communication -- Data processing | Communication and technology | Computer networks | Cyberspace | Social interaction | Virtual realityDDC classification: 302.20285 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 302.20285 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00082766 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
This anthology brings together studies on computer-mediated electronic space and social interaction and thus expands the available research on cyberspace and its social, cultural and psychological impact. Section 1 addresses broad issues and theoretical positions relevant to this new area of study, provides a theoretical and philosophical basis for the more specific analyses of cyberspace, and links those analyses to larger issues in the field of communication. Section 2 covers the functions of cyberspace, especially the ways in which cyberspace is used as a functional alternative to a place or set of places. Section 3 covers the form that cyperspace takes in comparison to the forms of physical space and other types of mediated space such as writing, print, and film. Finally, section 4 covers the forms of communication and characteristic of cyberspace, the emergence of a new cyberculture, and the ways in which it alters more traditional meanings of the self or subject, sexuality, and community.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Section 1: Cyberspace in perspective: the theoretical context -- Section 2: Function: cybernetworks and cyberplaces as alternatives to physical location and transportation -- Section 3: Form: Virtual reality and hypermedia as new kinds of space and navigation -- Section 4: Meaning: cybercommunication and cyberculture.