| Description |
ix, 250 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Part I. Web Studies -- 1. Web Studies: A User's Guide, David Gauntlett -- 2. Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: Cyberculture Studies 1990-2000, David Silver -- 3. New Media, New Methodologies: Studying the Web, Nina Wakeford -- Part II. Web Life, Arts and Culture -- 4. A Home on the Web: Presentations of Self on Personal Homepages, Charles Cheung -- 5. I-love-Xena.com: Creating On-Line Fan Communities, Kirsten Pullen -- 6. Artists' Websites: Declarations of Identity and Presentations of Self, Eva Pariser -- 7. Webcam Women: Life on Your Screen, Donald Snyder -- 8. Queer 'n' Asion on--and off--the Net: The Role of Cyberspace in Queer Taiwan and Korea, Chris Berry and Fran Martin -- 9. The Web goes to pictures, David Gauntlett -- 10. The Teacher Review debate -- --Teacher Review: Just what the internet was made for, Ryan Lathouwers and Amy Happ -- --Teacher Review: the Dark Side of the Internet, Daniel Curzon-Brown -- Part III. Web Business -- 11. Bad Web Design: The internet's real addiction problem, David Rieder -- 12. Pay per browse?: The Web's Commercial Features, Gerard Goggin -- 13. Search Engines, Portals, an Global Capitalism, Vincent Miller -- 14. Pornography on the Web, JoAnn di Filippo -- 15. Fascination: The Modern Allure of the Internet, Christopher R. Smit -- 16. The BBC Goes Online: Public Service Broadcasting in the New Media Age, Richard Naylor, Stephen Driver, and James Cornford -- Part IV. Global Web Communities, Politics and Protest -- 17. World Wide Women and the Web, Wendy Harcourt -- 18. The Internet and Democracy, Stephen Lax -- 19. Community Development in the Cybersociety of the Future, Howard Rheingold -- 20. The Indian Diaspora in the USA and Around the Web, Madhavi Mallapragada -- 21. The Cherokee Indians and the Internet, Ellen L. Arnold and Darcy C. Plymire -- 22. The World Wide Web goes to War, Kosovo 1999, Philip M. Taylor -- 23. New Ways to Break the Law: Cybercrime and the Politics of Hacking, Douglas Thomas -- 24. The Future: Faster, smaller, more, more, more, David Gauntlett -- Glossary |
| Summary |
"Beginning with an introduction to the Web and how it works, followed by the theories and methods of cyberculture studies, Web.Studies moves on to consider everyday Web life, art and culture, Web business, and global Web communities, politics and protest. Topics covered range from personal and fan websites, cyber-sexualities, webcams and Web-based art and entertainment, to global capitalism and the fight for Web domination, cybercrime and internet propaganda. Uniquely, the book combines studies of the Web's artistic and creative possibilities with political, economic and international perspectives. Each chapter includes suggestions for ways in which students can use the Web to further their own research; there are also lists of useful websites, a glossary and a bibliography."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Cyberspace -- Social aspects.
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World Wide Web -- Social aspects.
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Mass media and culture.
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World Wide Web.
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| Author |
Gauntlett, David.
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| LC no. |
2001267957 |
| ISBN |
0340760486 |
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0340760494 (paperback) |
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