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Part I: Features, Uses, and Cultural Implications of New Media
1. Thinking about New(er) 3
“Social Implications of the Internet,” Paul DiMaggio, Eszter Hargittai, 5
W. Russell Neuman, and John P. Robinson
“Hypes, Hopes and Actualities: New Digital Cartesianism and Bodies in 29
Cyberspace,” Megan Boler
“Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer,” Wendell Berry 49
“Old Rituals for New Space: Rites de Passage and William Gibson’s 51
Cultural Model of Cyberspace,” David Tomas
2. Looking at the Internet’s Rear View Mirror 63
“The Mother of All Networks,” Tom Standage 65
“The Ecological Impact of Telecommunications,” Ithiel de Sola Pool 72
“The Blurring of Public and Private Behaviors,” Joshua Meyrowitz 84
“Remembrance of Films Past: Cable Television and Classic 99
Hollywood Cinema,” Barbara Klinger
3. Understanding Media Convergence and Transmediation 127
“Personal Networks and the Personal Communication System: Using 129
Multiple Media to Connect,” Jeffrey Boase
“Localizing the Internet Beyond Communities and Networks,” 142
John Postill
“Multimodal Computer-Mediated Communication and Social Support 156
among Older Chinese Internet Users,” Bo Xie
“Buying into American Idol: How We Are Being Sold on Reality 174
Television,” Henry Jenkins
4. Digital and Network Aesthetics 197 “Digital Film,” Stephen Keane 199
“Call and Response: Storytelling in the Neverwinter Vault,” Robin Woods 211
“From Barbie to Mortal Kombat: Further Reflections,” Henry Jenkins 218
“Image Future,” Lev Manovich 225
Part II: Examining Mediation Themes and Theaters of Action
5. Identity Online 241
“Revealing the ‘Real’ Me, Searching for the ‘Actual’ You: Presentations 243
of Self on an Internet Dating Site,” Monica T. Whitty
“The Chronicles of Me: Understanding Blogging as a Religious 258
Practice,” Pauline Hope Cheong, Alexander Halavais, and
Kyounghee Kwon
“Feminist Sexualities, Race and the Internet: An Investigation 276
of suicidegirls.com,” Shoshana Magnet
“I’ll Take My Stand in Dixie-Net: White Guys, the South, 295
and Cyberspace,” Tara McPherson
6. Digital Inclusion and Inequalities 305
“Digital Inequality: Differences in Young Adults’ Use of the Internet,” 307
Eszter Hargittai and Amanda Hinnant
“The Young and Techless? Investigating Internet Use and
Problem-Solving Behaviors of Young Adults in Singapore,”
Pauline Hope Cheong and Jessie Poon 323
“Puerto Rican Language Use on MySpace.com,” Kevin S. Carroll 338
“‘Access Denied’: Arguments about Equality and Access to 351
New Media in the Information Society,” Stephen Lax
7. Communities and the Hyperlinks that Bind 361
“Grooming, Gossip, Facebook and Myspace: What Can We Learn 363
about These Sites from Those Who Won’t Assimilate?,” Zeynep Tufekci
“Weaving Webs of Faith: Examining Internet Use and Religious 378
Communication among Chinese Protestant Transmigrants,”
Pauline Hope Cheong and Jessie Poon
“Community and Social Interaction in the Wireless City: Wi-Fi Use 393
in Public and Semi-Public Spaces,” Keith N. Hampton and Neeti Gupta
“The Rise and Fall of a Facebook Hate Group,” Andre Oboler 407
8. Civic Engagement and Democracy 413
“Smart Mobs: The Power of the Mobile Many,” Howard Rheingold 415
“Interactive Audiences? The ‘Collective Intelligence’ of Media Fans,” 433
Henry Jenkins
“The Practices of Internet Networking–A Resource for Alternative 446
Political Movements,” Tobias Olsson
“Net Gains in Political Participation: Secondary Effects of Internet 457
on Community,” Andrea Kavanaugh, B. Joon Kim,
Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, Joseph Schmitz and Philip Isenhour
9. Work and Commerce 479
“Ecash,” David D. Friedman 481
“Consuming Code: Use-Value, Exchange-Value, and the Role of 489
Virtual Goods in Second Life,” Jennifer Martin
“My Obsession: I Thought I Was Immune to the Net. Then I Got 503
Bitten by eBay.” William Gibson
“Fortune-Telling on eBay: Early African American Textual Artifacts 510
and the Marketplace,” Eric Gardner
10. Privacy and Surveillance 519
“Situating Privacy Online: Complex Perceptions and Everyday 521
Practices,” Ana Viseu, Andrew Clement and Jane Aspinall
“Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on 537
YouTube,” Patricia G. Lange
“Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, 552
and Privacy on the Facebook,” Alessandro Acquisti and Ralph Gross
“Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA),” 572
danah boyd and Henry Jenkins
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