ISBN:
0415956250
,
9780415956253
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (vii, 343 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in internationalizing media studies 2
Parallel Title:
Print version Internationalizing Internet Studies : Beyond Anglophone Paradigms
DDC:
306.440285
Keywords:
Cyberspace
;
Communication and culture Technological innovations
;
Language and languages
;
Internet
Abstract:
This timely volume offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and been used internationally. It is the first book to provide a range of perspectives on the international Internet and to explore the implications of such new knowledge
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Part I: Rethinking Internet Studies?; 1 Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms; 2 What Cyberspace?: Traveling Concepts in Internet Research; 3 Americanizing Palestine Through Internet Development; 4 The International Turn in Internet Governance: A World of Difference?; Part II: Language Communities Online; 5 Language on the Internet in Japan; 6 More than Humor: Jokes from Russia as a Mirror of Russian Life; 7 The Welsh Language on the Internet: Linguistic Resistance in the Age of the Network Society
Description / Table of Contents:
8 The Fight of a Minority Language Against the Force of Globalization: The Case of Catalan on the Internet9 The German Internet Portal Indernet: A Space for Multiple Belongingness; 10 Serbian Minority/Refugees on the Internet: In the Midst of Denial and Acceptance of Reality; Part III: Islam, Modernity, and the Internet; 11 Modems, Malaysia, and Modernity: Characteristics and Policy Challenges in Internet-Led Development; 12 Muslim Voices in the Blogosphere: Mosaics of Local-Global Discourses; 13 The Internet in Iran: The Battle Over an Emerging Virtual Public Sphere
Description / Table of Contents:
Part IV: Asian Cybercultures14 Internet, Internet Culture, and Internet Communities of Korea: Overview and Research Directions; 15 Gifts of Presence: A Case Study of a South Korean Virtual Community, Cyworld's Mini-hompy; 16 Affiliation in Political Blogs in South Korea: Comparing Online and Offline Social Networks; 17 Beauty Is in the Eye of the QQ User: Instant Messaging in China; 18 That Global Feeling: Sexual Subjectivities and Imagined Geographies in Chinese-Language Lesbian Cyberspaces; 19 Online Tongzhi?: Subcultural Practices in the Gay and Lesbian Community of Spiteful Tots
Description / Table of Contents:
20 Going Mobile: The Mobile Internet, Ringtones, and the Music Market in JapanContributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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