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May 2009
7 x 9, 416 pp., 71 illus.
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0-262-12304-5
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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
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Introduction: A Fable of Politics, Community, and Virtuality
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1Digital Monsters: Show and Tell on Capitol Hill
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2Hacking Aristotle: What Is Digital Rhetoric?47
3The Desert of the Unreal: Democracy and Military-Funded Videogames and Simulations97
4The War from the Web: An Atlas of Conflict, Government, and Citizenship137
5Power Points: The Virtual State and Its Discontents165
6Whistle-Blowers: Traditional Epistolary Discourse and Electronic Communication183
7Submit and Render: Digital Satires about Surveillance and Authentication199
8Reading Room: The Nation-State and Digital Library Initiatives239
9Waiting Room: Serious Games about National Security and Public Health281
10The Past as Prologue: Cultural Politics and the Founding Narratives of Information Science311
Notes333
Index
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