Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 The Internet and its Social Landscape -- 2 The Individual within the Collective: Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles -- 3 Virtual Commonality: Looking for India on the Internet -- 4 Structural Relations, Electronic Media, and Social Change: The Public Electronic Network and the Homeless -- 5 Why We Argue About Virtual Community: A Case Study of the Phish.Net Fan Community -- 6 Gay Men and Computer Communication: A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace -- 7 Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment -- 8 (Re)-fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman: Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix -- 9 Approaching the Radical Other: The Discursive Culture of Cyberhate -- 10 Punishing the Persona: Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender -- 11 Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet -- Index.