Index

Acknowledgments		ix	
Introduction: A Fable of Politics, Community, and Virtuality		1	
Digital Monsters: Show and Tell on Capitol Hill
15	
Hacking Aristotle: What Is Digital Rhetoric?
47	
The Desert of the Unreal: Democracy and Military-Funded Videogames and Simulations
97	
The War from the Web: An Atlas of Conflict, Government, and Citizenship
137	
Power Points: The Virtual State and Its Discontents
165	
Whistle-Blowers: Traditional Epistolary Discourse and Electronic Communications
183	
Submit and Render: Digital Satires about Surveillance and Authentication
199	
Reading Room: The Nation-State and Digital Library Initiatives
239	
Waiting Room: Serious Games about National Security and Public Health
281	
The Past as Prologue: Cultural Politics and the Founding Narratives of Information Science
311	
Notes		333	
Index		399