ABSTRACT

The Cyberspace Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all aspects of new media, information technologies and the internet. It gives an overview of the economic, political, social and cultural contexts of cyberspace, and provides practical advice on using new technologies for research, communication and publication.

 The Cyberspace Handbook includes:

*a glossary of over eighty key terms
*a list of over ninety web resources for news and entertainment, new media and web development, education and reference, and internet and web information
* specialist chapters on web design and journalism and writing on the web
*Over thirty illustrations of internet material and software applications.

Jason Whittaker explores how cyberspace has been constructed, how it is used and extends into areas as different as providing us immediate news or immersive games and virtual technologies for areas such as copyright and cybercrime, as well as key skills in employing the internet for research or writing and designing for the Web.

part |2 pages

Part I Introduction and contexts

chapter 1|19 pages

Cyberspace, digital media and the Internet

What is cyberspace?

chapter 2|14 pages

Mapping cyberspace

Studying cyberspace

chapter 3|19 pages

ICT, telecommunications and cyberspace

The new economy

part |2 pages

Part II Using cyberspace

chapter 4|16 pages

Using the Internet

chapter 5|32 pages

Cyberspace technologies

Computer technologies

chapter 6|15 pages

Webcasting and digital broadcasting

chapter 7|25 pages

Games and entertainment

part |2 pages

Part III Reading/writing cyberspace

chapter 8|17 pages

Sources, resources and research

chapter 9|9 pages

Online news and journalism

chapter 10|16 pages

Internet forms and e-zines

Internet formats

chapter 11|14 pages

Writing for the Web

Online writing

chapter 12|26 pages

Web design

part |2 pages

Part IV Regulations, institutions and ethics

chapter 13|26 pages

Regulation and cybercrime

chapter 14|19 pages

Cyberspace and the public sphere

Governing cyberspace

chapter 15|10 pages

Ethics in cyberspace

Computer ethics and ethical theories