Community in the Digital Age: Philosophy and Practice

By Darin Barney and Andrew Feenberg

Book Overview

Community in the Digital Age features the latest, most challenging work in an important and fast-changing field, providing a forum for some of the leading North American social scientists and philosophers concerned with the social and political implications of this new technology. Their provocative arguments touch on all sides of the debate surrounding the Internet, community, and democracy.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742529592
• ISBN13: 9780742529595
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

A philosophical discussion of how community is changing

If it's a philosophical discussion of how community is changing in the digital age that is needed, you need go no further than Andrew Feenberg and Darin Barney's collection Community In The Digital Age: it updates and extends debates about who we are when we're online, discusses differences between online and offline realities, and provides critical assessments of the Internet's relationships to public life. A challenging survey of one of the fastest-changing relationships in modern times, Community In The Digital Age should be required reading.