Online Territories

by Christensen, Miyase; Jansson, Andre; Christensen, Christian

• ISBN13: 9781433107986
• ISBN10: 1433107988
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-25
• Publisher: Peter Lang Pub Inc

Summary

Online Territories brings together key research and writings in the interdisciplinary study of new media and society in order to address a number of questions arising from the ways in which online technologies are currently being envisioned, used and experienced. In doing so, it offers an up-to-date contextualization of online practices and explores, from a variety of perspectives, the emergence of new experiences/routines in relation to, and new conceptions of, social space. A central rationale for this volume is the need for further, research-based contextualization of preexisting theories related with globalization, mobility, citizenship and civic participation, socio-spatial dynamics and network society, for example. Online territories are traced in relation to three distinct and interrelated pathways the everyday; the civic and the public; and the transnational/translocal by taking mediation, communicative practice and social space as departure points. The volume ends with an Afterword by David Morley.

Author Biography

Miyase Christensen is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden, and research fellow at the Department of Philosophy and History of Technology at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden. André Jansson is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. Christian Christensen is Professor of Media and Communications Studies in the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xi
Introduction: Globalization, Mediated Practice and Social Space: Assessing the Means and Metaphysics of Online Territories	p. 1
Everyday Intersections
The Everyday War: Iraq, YouTube and the Banal Spectacle	p. 17
The Domestication of Online Pornography: How Cyberporn Found a Home in the American Home	p. 31
Fans Online: Affective Media Consumption and Production in the Age of Convergence	p. 49
The Place of Internet Gambling: Presence, Vice, and Domestic Space	p. 75
Spamculture: The Informational Politics of Functional Trash	p. 89
Citizenship, Public Space and Communication Online
Mediapolis, Human (In)Security and Citizenship: Communication and Glocal Development Challenges in the Digital Era	p. 113
The Rise and Fall of Online Feminism	p. 132
Social Movement Web Use in Theory and Practice: A Content Analysis	p. 147
Identity and Surveillance Play in Hybrid Space	p. 171
Hacking, Jamming, Boycotting, and Out-Foxing the Commercial Music Market-Makers	p. 185
Transnational/Translocal Nexuses
Diaspora, Mediated Communication and Space: A Transnational Framework to Study Identity	p. 205
Online Social Media, Communicative Practice and Complicit Surveillance in Transnational Contexts	p. 222
Cosmopolitan Capsules: Mediated Networking and Social Control in Expatriate Spaces	p. 239
Reconfiguring Diasporic-Ethnic Identities: The Web as Technology of Representation and Resistance	p. 256
Afterword	p. 273
Contributors	p. 291
Index	p. 295
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