Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms

by Goggin; Gerard

• ISBN13: 9780415956253
• ISBN10: 0415956250
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-11-03
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This book will offer a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing a lively and challenging examination of the Internet and Internet studies. There is much interest among scholars and researchers in understanding the place of the Internet in cultural, social, national, and regional settings. This is the first book-length account that not only provides a range of perspectives on the international Internet but also explores the implications of such new knowledge and accounts for concepts, methods, and themes in Internet studies. Of special interest will be the book's fresh and up-to-date coverage of the Internet in perhaps the most dynamic region at present, the Asia-Pacific.

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Rethinking Internet Studies?
Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms	p. 3
What Cyberspace? Traveling Concepts in Internet Research	p. 18
Americanizing Palestine Through Internet Development	p. 32
The International Turn in Internet Governance: A World of Difference?	p. 48
Language Communities Online
Language on the Internet in Japan	p. 65
More than Humor: Jokes from Russia as a Mirror of Russian Life	p. 79
The Welsh Language on the Internet: Linguistic Resistance in the Age of the Network Society	p. 96
The Fight of a Minority Language Against the Force of Globalization: The Case of Catalan on the Internet	p. 112
The German Internet Portal Indernet: A Space for Multiple Belongingness	p. 128
Serbian Minority/Refugees on the Internet: In the Midst of Denial and Acceptance of Reality	p. 145
Islam, Modernity, and the Internet
Modems, Malaysia, and Modernity: Characteristics and Policy Challenges in Internet-Led Development	p. 163
Muslim Voices in the Blogosphere: Mosaics of Local-Global Discourses	p. 178
The Internet in Iran: The Battle Over an Emerging Virtual Public Sphere	p. 196
Asian Cybercultures
Internet, Internet Culture, and Internet Communities of Korea: Overview and Research Directions	p. 217
Gifts of Presence: A Case Study of a South Korean Virtual Community, Cyworld's Mini-hompy	p. 237
Affiliation in Political Blogs in South Korea: Comparing Online and Offline Social Networks	p. 252
Beauty Is in the Eye of the QQ User: Instant Messaging in China	p. 265
That Global Feeling: Sexual Subjectivities and Imagined Geographies in Chinese-Language Lesbian Cyberspaces	p. 285
Online Tongzhi? Subcultural Practices in the Gay and Lesbian Community of Spiteful Tots	p. 302
Going Mobile: The Mobile Internet, Ringtones, and the Music Market in Japan	p. 316
Contributors	p. 333
Index	p. 339
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