Virtualpolitik : an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes /

Show other versions (1)

Government media making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Losh, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mathews)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Information society > Political aspects > United States.
Information technology > Political aspects > United States.
Internet > Political aspects > United States.
Communication > Political aspects > United States.
Société de l'information > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Technologie de l'information > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Internet > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
Communication > Aspect politique > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
Communication > Political aspects
Information society > Political aspects
Information technology > Political aspects
Internet > Political aspects
Informationssamhället > politiska aspekter > Förenta staterna.
Internet > politiska aspekter > Förenta staterna.
United States
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Media Studies
SOCIAL SCIENCES/Political Science/Public Policy & Law
DIGITAL HUMANITIES & NEW MEDIA/General
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A fable of politics, community, and virtuality
  • Digital monsters : show and tell on Capitol Hill
  • Hacking Aristotle : what is digital rhetoric?
  • The desert of the unreal : democracy and military-funded videogames and simulations
  • The war from the Web : an atlas of conflict, government, and citizenship
  • Power points : the virtual state and its discontents
  • Whistle-blowers : traditional epistolary discourse and electronic communication
  • Submit and render : digital satires about surveillance and authentication
  • Reading room : the nation-state and digital library initiatives
  • Waiting room : serious games about national security and public health
  • The past as prologue : cultural politics and the founding narratives of information science.

Similar Items