Cybersociety 2.0

Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.

Unfortunately most of the findings in this volume are dated. I sometimes recommend it for students doing research but only for a historical perspective on computer mediated discourse.

• Introduction - Steven JonesInformation, Internet and Community - Steven JonesNotes toward an Understanding of Community in the Information AgeThe Emergence of On-line Community - Nancy K BaymDesigning Genres for New Media - Philip E AgreSocial, Economic and Political ContextsFeminist Fictions of Future Technology - Cheris KramaraeText as Mask - Brenda DanetGender, Play, and Performance on the InternetDating on the Net - Lynn Schofield ClarkTeens and the Rise of ′Pure′ RelationshipsVirtual Ethnicity - Mark PosterTribal Identity in an Age of Global CommunicationsDissolution and Fragmentation - Beth Kolko and Elizabeth ReidProblems in On-line Communities