Internet culture / edited by David Porter.

Includes bibliographical references.

An archaeology of cyberspaces : virtuality, community, identity Shawn P. Wilbur -- Community and identity in the electronic village Derek Foster -- Usenet communities and the cultural politics of information Michele Tepper -- Cyberspace and place : the internet as middle landscape on the electronic frontier Dave Healy -- Flesh made word : sex, text and the virtual body Shannon McRae -- Virtually embodied : the reality of fantasy in a multi-user dungeon Mizuko Ito -- The postmodern Paradiso : Dante, cyberpunk, and the technosophy of cyberspace Jeffrey Fisher -- Spam : heteroglossia and harassment in cyberspace Charles J. Stivale -- I flamed Freud : a case study in teletextual incendiarism William B. Millard -- Authority and egalitarian rhetoric in the virtual coffeehouse Brian A. Connery -- Essayistic messages : internet newsgroups as an electronic public sphere James A. Knapp -- Cyberdemocracy : internet and the public sphere Mark Poster -- Progressive politics, electronic individualism and the myth of virtual community Joseph Lockard -- Reading, writing, hypertext : democratic politics in the virtual classroom Joseph Tabbi -- Cyberspace and the globalization of culture Jon Stratton.