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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 414 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262254946
  • 0262254948
  • 1282240471
  • 9781282240476
  • 9786612240478
  • 6612240474
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Virtualpolitik.DDC classification:
  • 320.97301/4 22
LOC classification:
  • JK468.A8 L67 2009eb
Online resources:
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.
Summary: Government media making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-397) and index.

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

English.

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