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