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

This title reveals government media making, from official websites to whistleblowers' e-mails, and its sometimes unintended consequences
Print Book, English, ©2009
MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass., ©2009
xi, 414 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780262123044, 0262123045
234260144
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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