constructing online identity

[katekat]

• Weird article by David Wall:  "Cybercrime and the Culture of Fear: Social Science Fiction(s) and the Production of Knowledge about Cybercrime"
  
  Without reading his paper (but hey, i'm a grad student, i'll make summary judgements from the summaries), it sounds like he's made two errors:
  
  1) not giving enough weight to his examination of the culture of fear that the news media use to get more viewers ... about everything - cybercrime, medical crime, incest scandals, etc.
  
  2) by implying that it's in cyberpunk that these characters originated it's excluding the idea that the baddies come from other literary tropes..
  

• spaceless.com with extra spicy article action:
  
  'Better than (Real)Life': Cyberspace as Urban Space
  
  Virtually There:  The social construction of computer mediated identity 
  
  (and a listing of all of their papers up to yr 2000)