PART ONE: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN THE COMPUTER AGECHAPTER 1: NEW WINDOWS ON THE SELF Forward Thinking (cartoon--Tony Auth, "He thinks, therefore I am") Sherry Turkle, "Identity in the Age of Internet: Living in the MUD" Charles Platt, "What's It Mean to Be Human, Anyway?" Iain A. Boal, "Body, Brain, and Communication: An Interview with George Lakoff" Ellen Ullman, "Come In, CQ: The Body on the Wire" William Gibson, "Johnny Mnemonic" (fiction)CHAPTER 2: GENDER ONLINE Forward Thinking (cartoon--Mike Luckovich, "Monique") Dale Spender, "Gender-Bending" Jesse Kornbluth, "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Virtual Woman" Barbara Ehrenreich, "Put Your Pants On, Demonboy" Julian Dibbell, "A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned A Database into a Society" Laura Miller, "Women and Children First: Gender and the Settling of the Electronic Frontier"CHAPTER 3: CULTURAL IDENTITY AND CYBERSPACE Forward Thinking (cartoon--Peter Steiner: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog") Charlise Lyles, "CyberFaith: Promoting Multiculturalism Online" Steve Silberman, "We're Teen, We're Queer, and We've Got E-Mail" Max Padilla, "Affirmative Access: A Gay Chicano Lost in Cyberspace" Glen Martin, "Internet Indian Wars" John Shirley, "Wolves of the Plateau" (fiction)PART TWO: BUILDING COMMUNITY IN THE ELECTRONIC AGECHAPTER 4: VIRTUAL COMMUNITY Forward Thinking (cartoon--Cory Garfin: "Family@21st Century.Hom") Howard Rheingold, "The Heart of the WELL" John Perry Barlow, "Is There a There in Cyberspace?" Amy Bruckman, "Finding One's Own in Cyberspace" Joshua Cooper Ramo, "Finding God on the Web" E.M. Forster, "The Air-Ship" (fiction)CHAPTER 5: ELECTRONIC DEMOCRACY Forward Thinking (cartoon--Scott Adams: Dilbert) Lawrence K. Grossman: "The Shape of the Electronic Republic" Jon Katz, "The Netizen: Birth of a Digital Nation" Langdon Winner, "Mythinformation" John Schwartz, "The American Dream, and E-mail for All" Pamela Varley, "Electronic Democracy: What's Really Happening in Santa Monica"CHAPTER 6: THE GLOBAL VILLAGE Forward Thinking (cartoon--Paul Duginski, "Global Village") Richard Rodriquez, "A Future of Faith and Cyberspace" John Hockenberry, "The End of Nationalism" Dale Spender, "Social Policy for Cyberspace" Rory J. O'Connor, "Africa: The Unwired Continent" John C. Rude, "Birth of a Nation in Cyberspace"PART THREE: SEEKING KNOWLEDGE IN THE INFORMATIONCHAPTER 7: NEW MEDIA AND INFORMATION OVERLOAD Forward Thinking (cartoon--Cathy Guisewite: Cathy) Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel" (fiction) Dave Barry, "Selected Web Sites: At Last, Proof that Civilization is Doomed" Sven Birkets, "Into the Electronic Mellennium" Shyamala Reddy, "The Once and Future Book" Brenda Laurel, "Virtual Reality: A New Opposable ThumbCHAPTER 8: OWNERSHIP AND SHARING OF KNOWLEDGE Ann Okerson, "Who Owns Digital Works?" Mark Fearer, "Scientology's Secrets" Herb Brody, "Wired Science" David Bank, "The New Corporate Know-It-Alls: Chief Knowledge Officers" Esther Dyson, "Intellectual Value" William Gibson, "Burning Chrome" (fiction)CHAPTER 9: THE CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE Forward Thinking (cartoon--Chris Suddick, "Off 101") Claudia Wallis, "The Learning Revolution" Clifford Stoll, "Computers in the Classroom: What's Wrong with This Picture?" Kelly A. Zito, "The Digital Difference" Monty Neill, "Computers, Thinking, and Schools in the 'New World Economic Order'" Orson Scott Card, "The Giant's Drink" (fiction)
