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

Publication Info.	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2009]
	©2009

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Description	1 online resource (xi, 414 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-397) and index.
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.
Local Note	eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject	Information society -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Information society -- Political aspects.
	United States.
	Information technology -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Information technology -- Political aspects.
	Internet -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Internet -- Political aspects.
	Communication -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Communication -- Political aspects.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Losh, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mathews). Virtualpolitik. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009 9780262123044 0262123045 (DLC) 2008031029 (OCoLC)234260144
ISBN	9780262254946 (electronic book)
	0262254948 (electronic book)
	1282240471
	9781282240476
	0262123045
	9780262123044
Standard No.	9786612240478

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

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