Book Reviews David Gunkel. Hacking Cyberspace. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001. 239 pages. ISBN 0 - 8 1 3 3 - 3 6 9 9 - 4 (pbk.) Reviewed by Patfla Roberts School of Communication, Information and New Media, University of South Australia paula.roberts@unisa.edu.au mirrors an Alisdair McIntyre virtuous community of practice. Gunkel presents in complex prose (possibly to the confusion of the Library of Congress cataloguer) i a conscientious exposition of some of the competing discourses of cyberspace theorizing as they have been outlined by scholars from many disciplines. His scholarship is wide-ranging. In chapter one he discusses the utopian and dystopian views of earlier critiques of cyberspace, and in chapter two he outlines the metaphors which currently shape understandings of computerized communication networks. In chapter three he presents the varied views of theorists, before and since Baudrillard's treatise on Simulation, who likewise have pondered the substitution of reality with synthetic reality, and 'truth ... (with) illusion and appearance' (p.ll0). This chapter might have been the most ethically challenging of Gunkel's text, but here and elsewhere ethical considerations are almost completely absent. Gunkel's fourth chapter considers the computer's shaping mid marginalizing of language. His fifth chapter which
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Hacking Cyberspace
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