Gerard Goggin / Mark McLelland (eds.)

Internationalizing Internet Studies

Beyond Anglophone Paradigms
Herausgeber: Goggin, Gerard; Mclelland, Mark

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This timely volume offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and been used internationally. It is the first book to provide a range of perspectives on the international Internet and to explore the implications of such new knowledge.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 666g
• ISBN-13: 9780415956253
• ISBN-10: 0415956250
• Artikelnr.: 21031452

Autorenporträt

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communication and deputy director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre, University of New South Wales. His books include Mobile Phone Cultures (2008), Cell Phone Culture (2006), Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004), and Digital Disability (2003). Mark McLelland lectures in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences, Media and Communications at the University of Wollongong. His books include Queer Japan from the Pacific War to the Internet Age (2005) and Japanese Cybercultures (2003).

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Rethinking Internet Studies? 1. Internationalizing Internet
Studies-Beyond Anglophone Paradigms Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland 2.
What Cyberspace? Traveling Concepts in Internet Research Susanna Paasonen
3. Americanizing Palestine through Internet Development Helga Tawil-Souri
4. The International Turn in Internet Governance: A World of Difference?
Gerard Goggin Part II: Language Communities Online 5. Language on the
Internet in Japan Nanette Gottlieb 6. More than Humor: Jokes from Russia as
a Mirror of Russian Life Eugene Gorny 7. The Welsh language on the
Internet: Linguistic Resistance in the Age of the Network Society Daniel
Cunliff 8. The Fight of a Minority Language Against the Force of
Globalization: The Case of Catalan on the Internet Josep Lluís Micó and
Pere Masip 9. The German Internet Portal Indernet: A Space for Multiple
Belongingness Urmila Goel 10. Serbian Minority/Refugees on Internet: In the
Midst of Denial and Acceptance of the Reality Ljiljana Gavrilovic Part III:
Islam, Modernity and the Internet 11. Modems, Malaysia and Modernity:
Characteristics and Policy Challenges in Internet-Led Development Nasya
Bahfen 12. Muslim Voices in the Blogsphere: Mosaics of Local-Global
Discourses Merlyna Lim 13. The Internet in Iran: The Battle over an
Emerging Public Sphere Gholam Khiabany and Annabelle Sreberny Part IV:
Asian Cybercultures 14. Internet, Internet Culture, and Internet
Communities of Korea: Overview and Research Directions Seunghyun Yoo 15.
Gifts of Presence: A Case Study of a South Korean Virtual Community,
Cyworld's Mini-hompy Larissa Hjorth 16. Affiliation in Political Blogs in
South Korea: Comparing Online and Offline Social Networks Han Woo Park and
Randolph Kluver 17. Beauty is in the Eye of the QQ User: Instant Messaging
in China Pamela T. Koch, Bradley J. Koch, Kun Huang and Wei Chen 18. That
Global Feeling: Sexual Subjectivities and Imagined Geographies in
Chinese-Language Lesbian Cyberspaces Fran Martin 19. Hybridity Online: the
Cybercommunity of Spiteful Tots Terri He 20. Ring My Bell: The Impact of
Cell Phone Downloads on the Japanese Music Market Noriko Manabe