Virtual Culture marks a significant intervention in the debate about access and control in cybersociety exposing the ways in which the Internet and other computer-mediated communication technologies are being used by disadvantaged and marginal groups for social and political change.

Introduction - Steven G Jones The Internet and Its Social Landscape - Steven G Jones The Individual Within the Collective - Jan Fernback Virtual Ideology and the Realization of Collective Principles Virtual Commonality - Ananda Mitra Looking for India on the Internet Structural Relations, Electronic Media and Social Change - Joseph Schmitz The Public Electronic Network and the Homeless Why We Argue about Virtual Community - Nessim Watson A Case Study of Phish.Net Fan Community Gay Men and Computer Communication - David Shaw A Discourse of Sex and Identity in Cyberspace Virtual Community in a Telepresence Environment - Margaret L McLaughlin, Kerry K Osborne and Nicole B Ellison (Re)-Fashioning the Techno-Erotic Woman - Dawn Dietrich Gender and Textuality in the Cybercultural Matrix Approaching the Radical Other - Susan Zickmund The Discursive Culture of Cyberhate Punishing the Persona - Richard MacKinnon Correctional Strategies for the Virtual Offender Civil Society, Political Economy, and the Internet - Harris Breslow