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BL
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626250
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Losh, Elizabeth M., (Elizabeth Mathews)
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| Title & Author
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Virtualpolitik : : an electronic history of government media-making in a time of war, scandal, disaster, miscommunication, and mistakes /\ Elizabeth Losh
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| Publication Statement
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Cambridge, Mass. :: MIT Press,, c2009
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xi, 414 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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9780262123044 (hard cover : alk. paper)
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: 0262123045 (hard cover : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [333]-397) and index
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| Contents
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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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Information society-- Political aspects-- United States
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Information technology-- Political aspects-- United States
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Internet-- Political aspects-- United States
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Communication-- Political aspects-- United States
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| Dewey Classification
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320.97301/4
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| LC Classification
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JK468.A8L67 2009
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