Web studies / edited by David Gauntlett and Ross Horsley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Horsley, Ross.

Gauntlett, David.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and culture.

World Wide Web.

Physical Description:

xiii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

London : Arnold ; New York : Distributed in the U.S.A. by Oxford University Press, 2004.

Summary:

Bringing together the work of scholars, experts, and established online authors, this comprehensive book offers an analysis of both contemporary Web-based culture and arts and the impact of the Web on international economics, politics, and law. This second edition of Web.Studies combines updated chapters from the first edition with completely new chapters on the latest developments and controversies in cyberspace. Beginning with an introduction to the Web and how it works, the book outlines the theories and methodology of cyberculture studies, before moving on to explore aspects of everyday life online, art and commerce, global communities and the politics of Internet access and activism.

Contents:

pt. 1. Web studies. Web studies : what's new / David Gauntlett

Internet studies in the twenty-first century / Laura J. Gurak

Developing methodological frameworks for studying the World Wide Web / Nina Wakeford

pt. 2. Web life, identities, arts, and culture. Identity construction and self-presentation on personal homepages : emancipatory potentials and reality constraints / Charles Cheung

Masculinities on the Web / Ross Horsley

Everybody's gotta love somebody, sometime : online fan community / Kirsten Pullen

Web grrrls, guerilla tactics : young feminisms on the Web / Jayne Armstrong

Movie-making in the new media age / Graham Roberts

"Doing it" on the Web : emerging discourses on Internet sex / Jodi O'Brien and Eve Shapiro

Art in cyberspace : the digital aesthetic / Mark Adrejevic

Pornography online, lesbian style / Meredith Balderston

Help yourself : the World Wide Web as a self-help agora / Shani Orgad

Fascination and hospitality : issues and implications of Internet interactions / Christopher R. Smit

pt. 3. Web business, economics, and capitalism. Stitching the Web into global capitalism : two stories / Vincent Miller

The digital divide / Nick Couldry

Copyright in cyberspace : protecting intellectual property online / Kathleen K. Olson

The music industry versus the Internet : MP3 and other cyber music wars / Ian Dobie

pt. 4. Global Web communities, politics, and protest. The Internet and democracy / Stephen Lax

The World Wide Web goes to war : from Kosovo to the "war" against terrorism / Philip M. Taylor

World wide women and the Web / Wendy Harcourt

Continuity within change : the Cherokee Indians and the Internet / Ellen L. Arnold and Darcy C. Plymire

Virus writers : subculture and the electronic meaning of style / Douglas Thomas

Digital media futures / Richard Berger.

Notes:

Previous ed.: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-316) and index.

ISBN:

0340814721

OCLC:

56414190