Digital Formations – serie
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141 produkter
Camgirls
Celebrity and Community in the Age of Social Networks
Häftad, 2008
416 kr
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This book is a critical and ethnographic study of camgirls: women who broadcast themselves over the web for the general public while trying to cultivate a measure of celebrity in the process. The book’s over-arching question is, «What does it mean for feminists to speak about the personal as …
Hypercomplex Society
Häftad, 2003
431 kr
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Should today’s society be termed an «information» or a «network» society? This book provides an alternative choice—the hypercomplex society, which is a critical, complex-theoretical understanding of society whose growing level of social complexity represents the basic challenge of our current …
Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet
Agency and Identity
Av Mia Consalvo, Susanna Paasonen
Häftad, 2002
322 kr
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Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet investigates the forms and codes of the Internet as a popular medium and the ways in which women figure as users, content producers, and target audiences. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this book addresses issues of gendered identity and agency …
Saved from Oblivion
Documenting the Daily from Diaries to Web Cams
Av Andreas Kitzmann, Steve Jones
Häftad, 2004
329 kr
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What lies behind our need to rigorously document the thoughts, deeds, images, and sounds of everyday life? And more curiously, why would anyone want to spend time going over such material? At any given point someone is using a pen, a camera, a web cam, or a computer to document with varying degrees …
Net.SeXXX
Readings on Sex, Pornography, and the Internet
Häftad, 2004
404 kr
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Sex has shaped the Internet from the very beginning. In the process, the Internet has also brought about a plethora of new sexual possibilities, opened new markets for the entrepreneurs of pornography, challenged the boundaries of social institutions, exposed precarious moral dynamics, and created …
Exploring Religious Community Online
We are One in the Network
Häftad, 2005
416 kr
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Exploring Religious Community Online is the first comprehensive study of the development and implications of online communities for religious groups. This book investigates religious community online by examining how Christian communities have adopted internet technologies, and looks at how these …
Cyberspaces of Their Own
Female Fandoms Online
Häftad, 2005
416 kr
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Cyberspaces of Their Own interrogates the social and spatial relations of the rapidly expanding virtual terrain of media fandom. For the first time, issues of identity, community and space are brought together in this in-depth ethnographic study of two female internet communities. Members are fans …
Gatewatching
Collaborative Online News Production
Av Axel Bruns
Häftad, 2005
782 kr
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Gatewatching: Collaborative Online News Production is the first comprehensive study of the latest wave of online news publications. The book investigates the collaborative publishing models of key news Websites, ranging from the worldwide Indymedia network to the massively successful technology …
Storytelling Online
Talking Breast Cancer on the Internet
Häftad, 2005
322 kr
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This is an original sociological study of breast cancer patients’ participation in Internet spaces. While much has been debated about the significance of the Internet, the actual processes of communication in which people engage online are little understood as yet. Exploring the ways in which …
Cutting Code
Software and Sociality
Häftad, 2006
431 kr
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Software has often been marginalized in accounts of digital cultures and network societies. Although software is everywhere, it is hard to say what it actually is. Cutting Code: Software and Sociality is one of the first books to treat software seriously as a full-blown cultural process and as a …
Cybersounds
Essays on Virtual Music Culture
Häftad, 2006
444 kr
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Since the mass proliferation of the Internet, music has been the one art form that has seen the most attention online. This volume culls together essays that examine the cultural aspects of music existing online. More than just the notion that «people download,» Cybersounds is the first collection …
Internet Audience
Constitution and Measurement
Av Fernando Bermejo, Steve Jones
Häftad, 2007
342 kr
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Assessments of the audience of traditional mass media have existed for decades and have been widely studied, but the quantification of the Internet audience is a recent and barely known phenomenon. An audience is an essential requirement for the existence of any mass media: first, there is no …
South Asian Technospaces
Av Radhika Gajjala, Venkataramana Gajjala
Häftad, 2008
393 kr
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This book provides perspectives on how South Asian – often, more specifically, Indian – diasporas inhabit techno-mediated environments through their economic and socio-cultural activities. The themes examined include religion, caste, language, and gender in online communities and call centers, and …
Queer Online
Media Technology and Sexuality
Av Kate O'Riordan, David J. Phillips
Häftad, 2007
431 kr
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This collection draws together contemporary research into queer theory and practices, as they intersect with new media and communication technologies. It provides a synthesis of critical debates in these fields followed by empirical analyses of current and historical internet activities. These …
Displacing Place
Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century
Häftad, 2007
431 kr
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Displacing Place: Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century addresses the innovative, unanticipated, and far-reaching ways that mobile information and communication technologies (ICTs) are altering how we work, play, and relate to one another. This extraordinary collection of new essays by …
Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life, and Beyond
From Production to Produsage
Av Axel Bruns
Häftad, 2008
407 kr
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We – the users turned creators and distributors of content – are TIME’s Person of the Year 2006, and AdAge’s Advertising Agency of the Year 2007. We form a new Generation C. We have MySpace, YouTube, and OurMedia; we run social software, and drive the development of Web 2.0. But beyond the hype, …
porn.com
Making Sense of Online Pornography
Inbunden, 2009
976 kr
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Pornography has always been central to debates about sex and emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly focused on online pornographies. This collection examines pornography’s significance as a focus of definition, debate, and myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment …
porn.com
Making Sense of Online Pornography
Häftad, 2009
444 kr
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Pornography has always been central to debates about sex and emerging new media technologies. Today, debate is increasingly focused on online pornographies. This collection examines pornography’s significance as a focus of definition, debate, and myth; its development as a mainstream entertainment …
Making Online News
The Ethnography of New Media Production
Av David Domingo, Chris Paterson
Inbunden, 2008
1365 kr
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By analyzing the daily work of online journalists, this book investigates the production of online news: how it differs from traditional media production, and its consequences for the character and quality of online news. It advocates revitalization of the ethnographic methodologies of sociologists …
International Blogging
Identity, Politics and Networked Publics
Av Adrienne Russell, Nabil Echchaibi
Inbunden, 2009
972 kr
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Bloggers around the world produce material for local, national and international audiences, yet they are developing in ways that are distinct from the U.S. model. Through case studies of blogs written in English, Chinese, Arab, French, Russian, and Hebrew, this book explores the way blogging is …
Living Virtually
Researching New Worlds
Av Don Heider
Inbunden, 2009
1068 kr
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Virtual worlds are most often three dimensional locales, where people create virtual personae (called avatars) who come to play, socialize, and work. This edited collection of groundbreaking research on virtual worlds offers a wide-ranging look at the sociology, politics, and communication …
South Asian Technospaces
Av Radhika Gajjala, Venkataramana Gajjala
Inbunden, 2008
1255 kr
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This book provides perspectives on how South Asian – often, more specifically, Indian – diasporas inhabit techno-mediated environments through their economic and socio-cultural activities. The themes examined include religion, caste, language, and gender in online communities and call centers, and …
Culture of Efficiency
Technology in Everyday Life
Inbunden, 2009
1478 kr
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The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life reveals how people are managing, exploiting, and resisting technological developments in the digital age. In this unique volume, distinguished experts from a broad range of fields candidly show how the latest technologies are being used to …
Web History
Häftad, 2010
485 kr
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This is the first edited volume to put the emerging field of web history on the agenda of internet research. Sixteen original chapters investigate how the use of the web has developed in the realm of web culture at large, as well as how the organization of web industries and old media institutions …
Web History
Inbunden, 2010
1135 kr
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This is the first edited volume to put the emerging field of web history on the agenda of internet research. Sixteen original chapters investigate how the use of the web has developed in the realm of web culture at large, as well as how the organization of web industries and old media institutions …
Myths of Technology
Innovation and Inequality
Av Judith Burnett, Peter Senker m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1091 kr
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This book questions whether technologies are the rational, tangible, scientific, forward-thinking, neutral objects they are so often perceived to be, exploring instead how powerful, mythic ideas about technologies drive our social understanding and our expectations of them. Against a rising tide of …
Digital Cityscapes
Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
Av Adriana de Souza e Silva, Daniel M. Sutko
Häftad, 2009
485 kr
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The convergence of smartphones, GPS, the Internet, and social networks has given rise to a playful, educational, and social media known as location-based and hybrid reality games. The essays in this book investigate this new phenomenon and provide a broad overview of the emerging field of …
Digital Cityscapes
Merging Digital and Urban Playspaces
Av Adriana de Souza e Silva, Daniel M. Sutko
Inbunden, 2009
1271 kr
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The convergence of smartphones, GPS, the Internet, and social networks has given rise to a playful, educational, and social media known as location-based and hybrid reality games. The essays in this book investigate this new phenomenon and provide a broad overview of the emerging field of …
Second Life, Media, and the Other Society
Inbunden, 2010
1230 kr
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This book examines the convergence of media in the largest residential virtual community to date in the gaming world: Second Life. This user content–driven platform has brought media makers and audiences together in interactive environments where news, entertainment, and art have become programming …
Ethics of Internet Research
A Rhetorical, Case-Based Process
Av Heidi McKee, James E. Porter
Häftad, 2009
431 kr
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Drawing from interviews with Internet researchers from across the globe who work in diverse disciplines and in a wide array of online venues, this book examines ethical issues and questions that Internet researchers may encounter throughout the research process. Although the ethics of Internet …
