| Description |
viii, 244 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: desiring community -- Webs of affect: fantasy, virtuality and belonging -- (Un)deleted subjects: mourning, violence and community -- At-home in cyberspace: home, belonging and subjectivity -- Cyberconsumption: pleasure, fantasy and online shopping -- Pro-Ana: writing the virtual body -- Afterword: full circle |
| Summary |
"What does it mean to 'belong' to an online community? What happens to the body in cyberspace? How has the Internet been theorised: as a site of liberation, duplicity, threat?" -- BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-238) and index |
| Subject |
Communities.
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Cyberspace -- Social aspects.
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Internet -- Social aspects.
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Online social networks.
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Virtual reality -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
2009007542 |
| ISBN |
9783039115297 (alk. paper) |
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