Cyber Selves

Radhika Gajjala is associate professor of Communication Studies at Bowling Green State University.

• Part 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTSPart 2 PROLOGUE: I REFUSE TO BE READPart 3 INTRODUCTIONPart 4 PART I: Cyborg-Diaspora to the SAWnet RefusalChapter 5 Chapter One: Imagining Virtual Community and Dialogic EncountersChapter 6 Chapter Two: The SAWnet RefusalChapter 7 Chapter Three: Feminist Ethnography, Feminist Media Studies, and Internet ResearchPart 8 PART II: Building (South Asian) Cyberfeminist Webs?Chapter 9 Chapter Four: Interrogating Identities: Composing Other CyberspacesChapter 10 Chapter Five: Building Cyberfeminist WebsPart 11 PART III: Cyberfeminism and the "third-world"-DialoguesChapter 12 Chapter Six: Cyberfeminism, technology, and international "development"Chapter 13 Chapter Seven: Carving dis-appearing analogue/digital "selves"Part 14 EPILOGUE: I WANT TO CURL UP AND DENY YOUPart 15 REFERENCESPart 16 ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Radhika Gajjala's Cyberselves asks all the essential questions about technology, diaspora, nationality, and gender in the age of the Internet. Her lyrical interventions into the form of the academic book disrupt expectations about what ethnography ought to look like, and her unusual perspective as a member and leader of early online community gives the book a welcome grounding in lived experience. Her earnest, passionate, and deeply felt intervention into cyberculture studies is grounded in an excellent knowledge of the most relevant theoretical debates regarding postcolonialism, gender, and technology. This book also includes an exciting dialogue with a South Asian women's labor activist, and is committed throughout to collaborative thinking and knowledge-creation. This is a very personal and intimate book, and a welcome addition to the existing body of literature on online ethnography.