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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Losh, Elizabeth M.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9780262254946
Physical Description1 online zdroj (xi, 414 p.) : ill.

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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.