Tim Jordan is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, leading development there of analysis of digital culture. He is a member of two departments, Culture, Media and Creative Industries and Digital Humanities. Tim has been involved in analysis of the social and cultural meaning of the internet and cyberspace since the mid-1990s, as part of which he has published the books: Hacking: digital media and technological determinism (2008), Cyberpower (1999) and, with Paul Taylor, Hacktivism and Cyberwars (2004). He is a founding editor of the Taylor and Francis journal Social Movement Studies.

In Internet, Society, and Culture, Tim Jordan traces how people who have nothing and everything to share in their everyday communications use the technologies at hand to sustain a fantasy of presence, even when communicating with remote others. By contrasting the letter writing practices of Australian early colonizers with the contemporary performative practices of gamers colonizing virtual spaces, Tim Jordan explains how people play with matter, performativity and presence to tell stories that both stabilize and reinvent the place of the self at a given point in time. Original, imaginative and sharp.

• Chapter One: Before and After the Internet Chapter Two: Communication: bodies, presence, transmission Chapter Three: Letters; pre-internet communicative practicesChapter Four: Virtual Worlds: internet communicative practicesChapter Five: After the Internet: anxiety and styleChapter Six: Signatures

Tim Jordan is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London, leading development there of analysis of digital culture. He is a member of two departments, Culture, Media and Creative Industries and Digital Humanities. Tim has been involved in analysis of the social and cultural meaning of the internet and cyberspace since the mid-1990s, as part of which he has published the books: Hacking: digital media and technological determinism (2008), Cyberpower (1999) and, with Paul Taylor, Hacktivism and Cyberwars (2004). He is a founding editor of the Taylor and Francis journal Social Movement Studies.

In Internet, Society, and Culture, Tim Jordan traces how people who have nothing and everything to share in their everyday communications use the technologies at hand to sustain a fantasy of presence, even when communicating with remote others. By contrasting the letter writing practices of Australian early colonizers with the contemporary performative practices of gamers colonizing virtual spaces, Tim Jordan explains how people play with matter, performativity and presence to tell stories that both stabilize and reinvent the place of the self at a given point in time. Original, imaginative and sharp.

• Chapter One: Before and After the Internet Chapter Two: Communication: bodies, presence, transmission Chapter Three: Letters; pre-internet communicative practicesChapter Four: Virtual Worlds: internet communicative practicesChapter Five: After the Internet: anxiety and styleChapter Six: Signatures