Virtualpolitik - Table of Contents

May 2009
7 x 9, 416 pp., 71 illus.
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ISBN-10:
0-262-12304-5
ISBN-13:
978-0-262-12304-4

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Virtualpolitik
An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes
Elizabeth Losh

	Acknowledgments Sample Chapter - Download PDF (142 KB)	ix

	Introduction: A Fable of Politics, Community, and Virtuality Sample Chapter - Download PDF (211 KB)	1

1	Digital Monsters: Show and Tell on Capitol Hill Sample Chapter - Download PDF (405 KB)	15

2	Hacking Aristotle: What Is Digital Rhetoric?	47

3	The Desert of the Unreal: Democracy and Military-Funded Videogames and Simulations	97

4	The War from the Web: An Atlas of Conflict, Government, and Citizenship	137

5	Power Points: The Virtual State and Its Discontents	165

6	Whistle-Blowers: Traditional Epistolary Discourse and Electronic Communication	183

7	Submit and Render: Digital Satires about Surveillance and Authentication	199

8	Reading Room: The Nation-State and Digital Library Initiatives	239

9	Waiting Room: Serious Games about National Security and Public Health	281

10	The Past as Prologue: Cultural Politics and the Founding Narratives of Information Science	311

	Notes	333

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (173 KB)	399

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