Table of Contents

Part 1 Virtual Communities; Chapter 1 An Archaeology of Cyberspaces, Shawn P. Wilbur; Chapter 2 Community and Identity in the Electronic Village, Derek Foster; Chapter 3 Usenet Communities and the Cultural Politics of Information, MicheleTepper; Chapter 4 Cyberspace and Place, Dave Healy; Part 2 Virtual Bodies; Chapter 5 Flesh Made Word, Shannon McRae; Chapter 6 Virtually Embodied, Mizuko Ito; Chapter 7 The Postmodern Paradiso, Jeffrey Fisher; Part 3 Language, Writing, Rhetoric; Chapter 8 Spam, Charles J. Stivale; Chapter 9 I Flamed Freud, William B. Millard; Chapter 10 IMHO, Brian A. Connery; Chapter 11 Essayistic Messages, James A. Knapp; Part 4 Politics and the Public Sphere; Chapter 12 Cyberdemocracy Internet and the Public Sphere, Mark Poster; Chapter 13 Progressive Politics, Electronic Individualism and the Myth of Virtual Community, Joseph Lockard; Chapter 14 Reading, Writing, Hypertext Democratic Politics in the Virtual Classroom, Joseph Tabbi; Chapter 15 Cyberspace and the Globalization of Culture, Jon Stratton;

About the Author

David Porter teaches in the Department of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. He is the editor of Between Men and Feminism,also published by Routledge.

Reviews

"...an important and well-written anthology on cyberculture. ...the collection tackles important issues regarding online communities and identities..." -- History Computer Review
"Porter's [book] treats culture in terms of artistic expression...Porter only says that the essays are intended to examine the "characteristic ways of being and interacting" in the Internet's public spaces." -- Choice, October 1997