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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462738303321

Titolo

Digital dialogues and community 2.0 : after avatars, trolls and puppets / / edited by Tara Brabazon

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Chandos Publishing, , 2012

ISBN

1-78063-302-5

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Collana

Chandos social media series

Altri autori (Persone)

BrabazonTara

Disciplina

303.48

303.4833

Soggetti

Information society

Online social networks

Communication and technology

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets; Copyright; Contents; List of tables and boxes; Tables; Boxes; List of abbreviations; About the contributors; Introduction: new imaginings; Communication and community; From MySpace to OurSpace; Notes; Part 1 Communities, Exiles and Resistance; 1 The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse; Place is the thing; Panoptical temptation; Reincarnation as networked norm; Forgiveness not permission; Culture jammer or parasite?; I've got you under my skin; Permaban and punish

Legibility and responsibility Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right; Notes; 2 Call it hyper activism: politicizing the online Arab public sphere and the quest for authenticity and relevance; From blogging to YouTube: politicising the internet; From call-in programs to online comments: participatory culture; Notes; 3 What's in a name? Digital resources and resistance at the global periphery; Resistance and the nation state; SouthAfrica.com; NewZealand.com; Tuvalu and .tv; .md: who represents Moldova?; What's in a domain (name)?; Cautions and conflicts: .tp and Timorese independence; Notes

4 I have seen the future, and it rings Mobile phones and social change;



Day-to-day use of mobile phones; Conclusion; Notes; Part 2 Structures for Sharing; 5 Strangers in the swarm; The history of file sharing; Bit Torrent; Identities in the swarm; The future; Notes; 6 Status (update) anxiety: social networking, Facebook and community; It's all about me; Watching the self (being watched); Notes; 7 Becoming Mireila: a virtual ethnography through the eyes of an avatar; Entry; Stripping Mireila; Feeders; Self; Notes; 8 Taste is the enemy of creativity: disability, YouTube and a new language 1

Disability is a social construction Lessons from Picasso; Digital disability; Notes; Part 3 Professions, Production, Consumptions; 9 The sound of a librarian: the politics and potential of podcasting in difficult times; iPod studies; Why should librarians use podcasts?; Questions of quality; Notes; 10 The invisible (wo)man; Introducing Nazlin; Endings; Notes; 11 The impact of the video-equipped DSLR; The video DSLR; A community of video cinematographers; The future; Notes; 12 Why media literacy is transformative of the Irish education system: a statement in advocacy; New literacies

Managing disadvantage Multiliteracy for an Information Age; Notes; 13 YouTube Academy; Doing 'everything' with YouTube; Broadcasting academics; Notes; Part 4 Fandom, Consumption and Community; 14 Live fast, die young, become immortal; Prescience; Mediated grief; Living digital death; Notes; 15 All we hear is Lady-o Gaga: Popular Culture 2.0; Music; Gender and fashion; Fandom; Notes; 16 Copyright and couture: the Comme il Faut experience; Intellectual property: copyrighting couture; Online retailers and the long tail of e-commerce; Fashion and failure; Comme il Faut couture; Notes

17 When community becomes a commodity

Sommario/riassunto

Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications from daily life to build relationships beyond geographical locality and family links. The book provides detailed analyses of how technology realigns the boundaries between connection, consciousness and community. This book reveals that alongside every engaged, nurturing and supportive group are those who are excluded, marginalised, ridiculed, or forgotten. It explores the argument that community is not an inevitable result of communication. Follow