Virtual Culture

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.

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