Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This is the first complete introduction to and analysis of the politics of the internet. Chapters are arranged around key words and use case studies to guide the reader through a wealth of material.
Cyberpower presents all the key concepts of cyberspace including:
* power and cyberspace
* the virtual individual
* society in cyberspace
* imagination and the internet.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of illustrations (p. viii)
• Acknowledgements (p. ix)
• 1 Power and cyberspace (p. 1)
• Key concepts (p. 1)
• Introduction (p. 1)
• Cyberpower (p. 2)
• Power (p. 7)
• Max Weber: power as a possession (p. 9)
• Barry Barnes: power as social order (p. 11)
• Michel Foucault: power as domination (p. 15)
• 2 Cyberspace and the matrix (p. 20)
• Key concepts (p. 20)
• Introduction (p. 21)
• Cyberspace: the science fiction vision (p. 23)
• Cyberspace: the matrix of computers (p. 33)
• History of a technology (p. 33)
• Size, users and uses (p. 49)
• Conclusion (p. 55)
• Barlovian cyberspace (p. 55)
• 3 The virtual individual (p. 59)
• Key concepts (p. 59)
• Introduction (p. 60)
• Axes of individual cyberpower: identity, hierarchy, information (p. 65)
• Identity fluidity (p. 65)
• Anti-hierarchical (p. 79)
• A world made of information (p. 85)
• Cyberpower at the individual (p. 87)
• Cyberpower as a possession (p. 88)
• Cyberpolitics: access and rights (p. 89)
• Conclusion (p. 96)
• 4 The virtual social I: the social in cyberspace (p. 100)
• Key concepts (p. 100)
• Introduction (p. 101)
• The social and the individual (p. 107)
• Technopower (p. 110)
• The spiral of technopower (p. 115)
• Information overload (p. 117)
• The complete spiral (p. 128)
• The technopower elite (p. 135)
• 5 The virtual social II: the social between online and offline (p. 142)
• Key concepts (p. 142)
• Introduction (p. 142)
• Cyberspace and production, consumption and politics in information societies (p. 145)
• Production (p. 147)
• Consumption (p. 153)
• Politics (p. 162)
• The informational space of flows (p. 167)
• Online and offline (p. 171)
• 6 The virtual imaginary (p. 179)
• Key concepts (p. 179)
• Introduction (p. 179)
• The collective imagination (p. 181)
• Visions of heaven... (p. 85)
• Cyborgs (p. 187)
• Information codes (p. 190)
• ... and hell (p. 196)
• Superpanopticon: cyborgs, minutiae and fear of cyberspace (p. 201)
• Fear itself (p. 204)
• Cyberspace's imaginary (p. 205)
• 7 Cyberpower (p. 208)
• Key concepts (p. 208)
• Introduction (p. 208)
• Relations between three types of cyberpower (p. 210)
• The first war of cyberspace: elites and grassroots (p. 214)
• Notes (p. 219)
• Glossary (p. 229)
• Bibliography (p. 233)
• Index (p. 248)