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Community in the Digital Age
Philosophy and Practice
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2004
Summary
Is the Internet the key to a reinvigorated public life? Or will it fragment society by enabling citizens to associate only with like-minded others? Online community has provided social researchers with insights into our evolving social life. As suburbanization and the breakdown of the extended family and neighborhood isolate individuals more and more, the Internet appears as a possible source for reconnection. Are virtual communities 'real' enough to support the kind of personal commitment and growth we associate with community life, or are they fragile and ultimately unsatisfying substitutes for human interaction? Community in the Digital Age features the latest, most challenging work in an important and fast-changing field, providing a forum for some of the leading North American social scientists and philosophers concerned with the social and political implications of this new technology. Their provocative arguments touch on all sides of the debate surrounding the Internet, community, and democracy.
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Copyright year
2004
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-2959-5
ISBN-Online
978-0-7425-7443-4
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
295
Product type
Edited Book
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Preface No access
1 Consumers or Citizens? The Online Community Debate Andrew Feenberg and Maria Bakardjieva No access Pages 1 - 28
2 The Vanishing Table, Or Community in a World That Is No World Darin Barney No access
3 Is the Internet the Solution to the Problem of Community? Albert Borgmann No access
4 Nihilism on the Information Highway: Anonymity versus Commitment in the Present Age Hubert Dreyfus No access
5 Workers as Cyborgs: Labor and Networked Computers Mark Poster No access
6 Our Split Screens Sherry Turkle No access
7 Virtual Togetherness: An Everyday Life Perspective Maria Bakardjieva No access
8 Gender and the Commodification of Community: Women.com and gURL.com Leslie Regan Shade No access
9 Ethics on the Internet: A Comparative Study of Japan, the United States, and Singapore Yumiko Nara and Tetsuji Iseda No access
10 Virtually Democratic: Online Communities and Internet Activism Richard Kahn and Douglas Kellner No access
11 The Practical Republic: Social Skills and the Progress of Citizenship Philip E. Agre No access
12 On Virtual, Democratic Communities Amitai Etzioni No access
13 The Internet and Political Transformation Revisited Diane Johnson and Bruce Bimber No access
14 Toward Civic Intelligence: Building a New Sociotechnological Infrastructure Douglas Schuler No access
