Online Territories

Online Territories shows subtly and with great theoretical skill how human relationships and activities online are integrated into a great variety of social spaces, shaping them but surely also being shaped by them. It takes us much beyond airy utopian claims, and away from customary Eurocentrisms. I hope this book will be widely read across many disciplines in the human sciences, as these make themselves at home in the twenty-first century. (Ulf Hannerz, Author of Transnational Connections and Anthropologys World) This anthology explores the meaning of territorial place in a lifeworld that increasingly intertwines the online with the offline. Grounded in both classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives, this book provides a rich panorama of explorations illustrated with empirical studies, helping us understand some of the societal dimensions of new media. Highly recommended for both the enquiring student and reflective scholar. (Nicholas W. Jankowski, Co-editor of New Media & Society) Online Territories shows subtly and with great theoretical skill how human relationships and activities online are integrated into a great variety of social spaces, shaping them but surely also being shaped by them. It takes us much beyond airy utopian claims, and away from customary Eurocentrisms. I hope this book will be widely read across many disciplines in the human sciences, as these make themselves at home in the twenty-first century. (Ulf Hannerz, Author of Transnational Connections and Anthropologys World) This anthology explores the meaning of territorial place in a lifeworld that increasingly intertwines the online with the offline. Grounded in both classical and contemporary theoretical perspectives, this book provides a rich panorama of explorations illustrated with empirical studies, helping us understand some of the societal dimensions of new media. Highly recommended for both the enquiring student and reflective scholar. (Nicholas W. Jankowski, Co-editor of New Media & Society)

Miyase Christensen is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden, and research fellow at the Department of Philosophy and History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. Andr Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. Christian Christensen is Professor of Media and Communications Studies in the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Contents: Miyase Christensen/Andr Jansson/Christian Christensen: Introduction: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space: Assessing the Means and Metaphysics of Online Territories Christian Christensen: The Everyday War: Iraq, YouTube and the Banal Spectacle Jonathan Lillie: The Domestication of Online Pornography: How Cyberporn Found a Home in the American Home Cornel Sandvoss: Fans Online: Affective Media Consumption and Production in the Age of Convergence Holly Kruse: The Place of Internet Gambling: Presence, Vice, and Domestic Space Kristoffer Gansing: Spamculture: The Informational Politics of Functional Trash Thomas Tufte: Mediapolis, Human (In)Security and Citizenship: Communication and Glocal Development Challenges in the Digital Era Liesbet van Zoonen: The Rise and Fall of Online Feminism Laura Stein: Social Movement Web Use in Theory and Practice: A Content Analysis David Phillips: Identity and Surveillance Play in Hybrid Space Patrick Burkart: Hacking, Jamming, Boycotting, and Out-Foxing the Commercial Music Market-Makers Myria Georgiou: Diaspora, Mediated Communication and Space: A Transnational Framework to Study Identity Miyase Christensen: Online Social Media, Communicative Practice and Complicit Surveillance in Transnational Contexts Andr Jansson: Cosmopolitan Capsules: Mediated Networking and Social Control in Expatriate Spaces Olga G. Bailey: Reconfiguring Diasporic-Ethnic Identities: The Web as Technology of Representation and Resistance David Morley: Afterword.