Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Virtual Culture marks a significant intervention in the current debate about access and control in cybersociety exposing the ways in which the Internet and other computer-mediated communication technologies are being used by disadvantaged and marginal groups - such as gay men, women, fan communities and the homeless - for social and political change.

The contributors to this book apply a range of theoretical perspecitves derived from communication studies, sociology and anthropology to demonstrate the theoretical and practical possibilities for cybersociety as an identity-structured space.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction
• The Internet and Its Social Landscape
• The Individual Within the Collective
• Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles
• Virtual Commonality
• Looking for India on the Internet
• Structural Relations, Electronic Media and Social Change
• The Public Electronic Network and the Homeless
• Why We Argue about Virtual Community
• A Case Study of Phish.Net Fan Community
• Gay Men and Computer Communication
• A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace
• Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment
• (Re)-Fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman
• Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix
• Approaching the Radical Other
• The Discursive Culture of Cyberhate
• Punishing the Persona
• Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender
• Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet