Description: This is the first complete introduction to and analysis of the politics of the internet. Key concepts included are: power and cyberspace; the virtual individual; society in cyberspace, and imagination and the internet.
Review Quotes: "Whether Cyberspace is a place or not, many explorers need orientation to the digital world--a map. And sociologist Tim Jordan is ready to provide just that, claiming that 'the patterns of virtual life are clear enough to be mapped....This book is such a globe. It is a cartography of powers.'."
-Alan Bilansky, Pennsylvania State University
"Jordan's introduction is remarkable...[he] truly animates this book.."
-Alan Bilansky, Pennsylvania State University
..."he is a fine representative of how the Internet is discussed in certain circles...."
-Alan Bilansky, Pennsylvania State University
"I would definitely assign this book.... It serves as an excellent introduction, and would serve well as a representative of efforts to map cyberspace, pointing to some popular attractions.."
-Alan Bilansky, Pennsylvania State University
..."Jordan does a good job of giving readers some grounding in the denser theoretical concepts he wants to employ while providing a variety of examples...Jordan skillfully works in a wide range of data while maintaining his theoretical considerations." Contemporary "Sociology 31, 3 ."