New Media and Cybercultures Anthology

Pramod K. Nayar teaches in the Department of English at the University of Hyderabad, India. His most recent books include Virtual Worlds: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cybertechnology (2004), Reading Culture: Theory, Praxis, Politics (2006), An Introduction to Cultural Studies (2008), Seeing Stars: Spectacle, Society and Celebrity Culture (2009), Packaging Life: Cultures of the Everyday (2009), and An Introduction to New Media and Cybercultures (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).

• Preface ixAcknowledgments xAcknowledgments to Sources xiiIntroduction 1PART ONE THEORIES, POETICS, PRACTICES 71 Web Sphere Analysis and Cybercultural Studies 11Kirsten Foot2 What Does it Mean to be Posthuman? 19N. Katherine Hayles3 Digitextuality and Click Theory: Theses on Convergence Media in the Digital Age 29Anna Everett4 The Double Logic of Remediation 46Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin5 The Database 50Lev Manovich6 Making Meaning of Mobiles: A Theory of Apparatgeist 65James E. Katz and Mark A. AakhusPART TWO SPACE, PLACE, COMMUNITY 777 Post-Sedentary Space 79William J. Mitchell8 The End of Geography or the Explosion of Place?: Conceptualizing Space, Place and Information Technology 90Stephen Graham9 Asphalt Games: Enacting Place Through Locative Media 109Michele Chang and Elizabeth Goodman10 Thought on the Convergence of Digital Media, Memory, and Social and Urban Spaces 117Federico CasalegnoPART THREE RACE IN/AND CYBERSPACE 12911 Cybertyping and the Work of Race in the Age of Digital Reproduction 132Lisa Nakamura12 Thinking Through the Diaspora: Call Centers, India, and a New Politics of Hybridity 151Raka Shome13 Voices of the Marginalized on the Internet: Examples from a Website for Women of South Asia 166Ananda MitraPART FOUR BODIES, EMBODIMENT, BIOPOLITICS 18314 Hypes, Hopes and Actualities: New Digital Cartesianism and Bodies in Cyberspace 185Megan Boler15 The Bioethics of Cybermedicalization 209Andy Miah and Emma Rich16 Biocolonialism, Genomics, and the Databasing of the Population 221Eugene ThackerPART FIVE GENDER, SEX, AND SEXUALITIES 25117 Assembling Bodies in Cyberspace: Technologies, Bodies, and Sexual Difference 254Dianne Currier18 Lesbians in (Cyber)space: The Politics of the Internet in Latin American On- and Off-line Communities 268Elisabeth Jay Friedman19 E-Rogenous Zones: Positioning Pornography in the Digital Economy 284Blaise Cronin and Elisabeth Davenport20 Race, Gender and Sex on the Net: Semantic Networks of Selling and Storytelling Sex Tourism 307Peter A. Chow-WhitePART SIX POLITICS, POLITICAL ACTION, ACTIVISM 32521 Internet Studies in Times of Terror 328David Silver and Alice Marwick22 Free Labor: Producing Culture for the Digital Economy 335Tiziana Terranova23 Ensuring Minority Rights in a Pluralistic and "Liquid" Information Society 357Birgitte Kofod Olsen24 Hacktivism: All Together in the Virtual 369Tim JordanPART SEVEN GAMES, GAMING, META-UNIVERSES 37925 Games Telling Stories: A Brief Note on Games and Narratives 382Jesper Juul26 WoW is the New MUD: Social Gaming from Text to Video 394Torill Elvira Mortensen27 Women and Games: Technologies of the Gendered Self 408Pam Royse, Joon Lee, Baasanjav Undrahbuyan, Mark Hopson, and Mia Consalvo28 To the White Extreme: Conquering Athletic Space, White Manhood, and Racing Virtual Reality 425David J. Leonard29 Your Second Life?: Goodwill and the Performativity of Intellectual Property in Online Digital Gaming 441Andrew Herman, Rosemary J. Coombe, and Lewis KayePART EIGHT THE DIGITAL, THE MOBILE, THE PERSONAL, AND THE EVERYDAY 46530 Taking Risky Opportunities in Youthful Content Creation: Teenagers' Use of Social Networking Sites for Intimacy, Privacy and Self-expression 468Sonia Livingstone31 Dynamics of Internet Dating 483Helene M. Lawson and Kira Leck32 Screening Moments, Scrolling Lives: Diary Writing on the Web 499Madeleine Sorapure33 Your Life in Snapshots: Mobile Weblogs 515Nicola Döring and Axel Gundolf34 Assembling Portable Talk and Mobile Worlds: Sound Technologies and Mobile Social Networks 526John Farnsworth and Terry Austrin35 New Media, Networking and Phatic Culture 534Vincent MillerIndex 544

"Recommended. Lower-and upper-division undergraduates; general readers." (Choice, 1 April 2011) "This collection is a timely, thought-provoking reflection on the social and cultural impacts of cyberspace and new media. I highly recommend it to scholars, teachers, students and indeed all those interested in new media and cyberculture." (M/C Reviews, September 11, 2010)