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
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.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	Government media making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mail, and its sometimes unintended consequences.
Subject	Information society -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Information technology -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Internet -- Political aspects -- United States.
	Communication -- Political aspects -- United States.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
	Communication -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00869984
	Information society -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00972775
	Information technology -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00973119
	Internet -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00977197
	United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
	Informationssamhället -- politiska aspekter -- Förenta staterna.
	Internet -- politiska aspekter -- Förenta staterna.
Other Form:	Print version: Losh, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mathews). Virtualpolitik. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2009 9780262123044 0262123045 (DLC) 2008031029 (OCoLC)234260144
Standard No.	9786612240478
ISBN	9780262254946 (electronic bk.)
	0262254948 (electronic bk.)

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