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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Losh, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mathews)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information society--Political aspects--United States.

Information society.

Information technology--Political aspects--United States.

Information technology.

Internet--Political aspects--United States.

Internet.

Communication--Political aspects--United States.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 PDF (xi, 414 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

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.

Notes:

Made available online by Ebrary.

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-24047-1

9786612240478

0-262-25494-8

OCLC:

320445243

Publisher Number:

9786612240478