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

Label
Virtualpolitik, an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes, Elizabeth Losh
Language
eng
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
Virtualpolitik
Nature of contents
bibliography
Responsibility statement
Elizabeth Losh
Sub title
an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes
Table Of 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
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