Table of Contents

Introduction - Steven G Jones
The Internet and Its Social Landscape - Steven G Jones
The Individual Within the Collective - Jan Fernback
Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles
Virtual Commonality - Ananda Mitra
Looking for India on the Internet
Structural Relations, Electronic Media and Social Change - Joseph Schmitz
The Public Electronic Network and the Homeless
Why We Argue about Virtual Community - Nessim Watson
A Case Study of Phish.Net Fan Community
Gay Men and Computer Communication - David Shaw
A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace
Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment - Margaret L McLaughlin, Kerry K Osborne and Nicole B Ellison
(Re)-Fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman - Dawn Dietrich
Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix
Approaching the Radical Other - Susan Zickmund
The Discursive Culture of Cyberhate
Punishing the Persona - Richard MacKinnon
Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender
Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet - Harris Breslow

About the Author

Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.