[Air-l] cyberspace and cosmopolitanism?

[Nafus, Dawn]

I hope you'll pardon the shameless self-promotion.  I've got a piece you
might like which critiques the notion of civil society online as an
ethnocentric model of politics. It doesn't address cosmopolitanism, but
it does examine the models of spatiality and representation that make
civil society an ethnocentric notion. It's also ethnographic, so it
might give you the specificity you're looking for.

Nafus, D. (2003). The Aesthetics of the Internet in St. Petersburg: Why
Metaphor Matters. The Communication Review 6(3) 185-212.

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Maurer
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Subject: [Air-l] cyberspace and cosmopolitanism?

Hi there,

I'm beginning to look more closely at competing models of citizenship
for online activists, and am wondering where to look for treatments of
the relationship between cyberspace and cosmopolitanism(s).  Theorists
of globalization treat this in a very general way, but I'm looking for
more specific approaches.  I know that Charles Ess has written a piece
called "Cosmopolitan Ideal or Cybercentrism? A Critical Examination of
the Underlying Assumptions of "The Electronic Global Village."  Can
anyone point me toward other materials like this? 

Thank you in advance,

 

Elizabeth Maurer

 

PhD ABD

Department of English

UBC

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