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Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0
After Avatars, Trolls and Puppets
Tara Brabazon (Edited by)
9781843346951, Elsevier Science
Paperback / softback, published 25 April 2012
320 pages
23.3 x 15.6 x 2.1 cm, 0.49 kg
"If there is a department teaching or researching social media at your higher education institution you should get this book in your possession." --Information Research "…individual chapters may be of interest to media or information studies scholars and students." --Online Information Review
Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications from daily life to build relationships beyond geographical locality and family links. The book provides detailed analyses of how technology realigns the boundaries between connection, consciousness and community. This book reveals that alongside every engaged, nurturing and supportive group are those who are excluded, marginalised, ridiculed, or forgotten. It explores the argument that community is not an inevitable result of communication. Following an introduction from the Editor, the book is then divided into four sections exploring communities and resistance, structures of sharing, professional communication and fandom and consumption. Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0 combines ethnographic methods and professional expertise to open new spaces for thinking about language, identity, and social connections.
List of tables and boxes List of abbreviations About the contributors Introduction: new imaginings Part 1: Communities, Exiles and Resistance Chapter 1: The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse Abstract: Place is the thing Panoptical temptation Reincarnation as networked norm Forgiveness not permission Culture jammer or parasite? I’ve got you under my skin Permaban and punish Legibility and responsibility Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right94 Chapter 2: Call it hyper activism: politicising the online Arab public sphere and the quest for authenticity and relevance Abstract: From blogging to YouTube: politicising the internet From call-in programs to online comments: participatory culture Chapter 3: What’s in a name? Digital resources and resistance at the global periphery Abstract: Resistance and the nation state SouthAfrica.com NewZealand.com Tuvalu and .tv .md: who represents Moldova? What’s in a domain (name)? Cautions and conflicts: .tp and Timorese independence Chapter 4: I have seen the future, and it rings Abstract: Mobile phones and social change Day-to-day use of mobile phones Conclusion Part 2: Structures for Sharing Chapter 5: Strangers in the swarm Abstract: The history of file sharing Bit Torrent Identities in the swarm The future Chapter 6: Status (update) anxiety: social networking, Facebook and community Abstract: It’s all about me Watching the self (being watched) Chapter 7: Becoming Mireila: a virtual ethnography through the eyes of an avatar Abstract: Entry Stripping Mireila Feeders Self Chapter 8: Taste is the enemy of creativity: disability, YouTube and a new language Abstract: Disability is a social construction Lessons from Picasso Digital disability Part 3: Professions, Production, Consumptions Chapter 9: The sound of a librarian: the politics and potential of podcasting in difficult times Abstract: iPod studies Why should librarians use podcasts? Questions of quality Chapter 10: The invisible (wo)man Abstract: Introducing Nazlin Endings Chapter 11: The impact of the video-equipped DSLR Abstract: The video DSLR The future Chapter 12: Why media literacy is transformative of the Irish education system: a statement in advocacy Abstract: New literacies Managing disadvantage Multiliteracy for an Information Age Chapter 13: YouTube Academy Abstract: Doing ‘everything’ with YouTube Broadcasting academics Part 4: Fandom, Consumption and Community Chapter 14: Live fast, die young, become immortal Abstract: Prescience Mediated grief Living digital death Chapter 15: All we hear is Lady-o Gaga: Popular Culture 2.0 Abstract: Music Gender and fashion Fandom Chapter 16: Copyright and couture: the Comme il Faut experience Abstract: Intellectual property: copyrighting couture Online retailers and the long tail of e-commerce Fashion and failure Comme il Faut couture Chapter 17: When community becomes a commodity Abstract: Digital identity Online communities Google Facebook Online dating Online games Cultivating digital identity and harvesting digital community Conclusion: white men rule? References Index
Subject Areas: Databases & the Web [UNN], Internet: general works [UBW], Library & information sciences [GL]
