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Introduction PART ONE: THE SELF, IDENTITY AND BODY IN THE AGE OF THE VIRTUAL Virtual Identity - David Holmes Communities of Broadcast, Communities of Interactivity Virtual Worlds/Virtual Bodies - Cathryn Vasseleu Beyond Being Digital - Nicola Green The Semiotics of Technics An Ontology of Digital Domains - Chris Chesher The Subject of Virtual Reality - Simon Cooper Plenitude vs Alienation This Abstract Body - Paul James and Freya Carkeek PART TWO: POLITICS AND COMMUNITY IN VIRTUAL WORLDS Virtual Urban Futures - Michael Ostwald Community in the Abstract - Michele Willson A Political and Ethical Dilemma? What Space Is Cyberspace? - Mark Nunes The Internet and Virtuality Always Already Virtual - Patricia Wise Feminist Politics in Cyberspace Virtual Reality and the New Age - Chris Zigiuras The Technologisation of the Sacred Cyberdemocracy - Mark Poster Internet and the Public Sphere
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