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Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets

Edited by Tara Brabazon, University of Bolton, UK

Chandos Publishing Social Media Series No. 4

If there is a department teaching or researching social media at your higher education institution you should get this book in your possession.
Information Research

 - provides innovative interdisciplinary research, incorporating Library and Information Management, Internet Studies, Cultural Studies, Media Studies, Disability Studies and Community Management
 - offers a balanced approach between the ‘bottom up’ and ‘top down’ development of online communities
 - demonstrates the consequences on the configuration of a community when consumers become producers and their lives and experiences are commodified
 - offers studies to be used as an integrated collection or as separate, incisive slices of scholarship

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. Following an introduction from the Editor, the book is then divided into four sections exploring communities and resistance, structures of sharing, professional communication and fandom and consumption. Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0 combines ethnographic methods and professional expertise to open new spaces for thinking about language, identity, and social connections.

Readership: Teachers at all levels, and students in various disciplines, including (but not limited to), Internet, Media and Communication Studies.

£49.50 / US$85.00 / €60.00

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About the editor

Tara Brabazon is Professor of Creative Media and Head of Photography and Creative Media at the University of Bolton, UK. Having written eleven books and over 150 academic articles and chapters, she is best known for Digital Hemlock and The University of Google. Tara remains interested in the sparks and innovations that emerge when digitization encounters popular culture. A multi-awarded teacher, her research operates in the space between the evangelical optimism of the online environment and the dystopic depression of cyberbullying and credit card fraud. For Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0, she has assembled a group of innovative scholars who temper their online lives and scholarship with the difficult questions of injustice, inequality, fragmentation and ambiguity that cannot be captured within the phrase digital divide. Contributors include: Vanessa Paech; Aziz Douai; Mike Kent; Mick Winter; Amanda Evans; Faracy Grouse; Katie Ellis; Nazlin Bhimani; Matthew Ingram; Laura Kinsella; Alex Cameron; and Leanne McRae.

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Contents

PART 1 COMMUNITIES, EXILES AND RESISTANCE
PART 2 STRUCTURES FOR SHARING
PART 3 PROFESSIONS, PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTIONS
PART 4 FANDOM, CONSUMPTION AND COMMUNITY

Introduction: new imaginings
Tara Brabazon
 - Communication and community
 - From MySpace to OurSpace
 - Notes

PART 1 COMMUNITIES, EXILES AND RESISTANCE

The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse
Venessa Paech
 - 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

Call it hyper activism: politicising the online Arab public sphere and the quest for authenticity and relevance
Aziz Douai
 - From blogging to YouTube: politicising the internet
 - From call-in programs to online comments: participatory culture
 - Notes

What’s in a name? Digital resources and resistance at the global periphery
Mike Kent
 - 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

I have seen the future, and it rings
Mick Winter
 - Mobile phones and social change
 - Day-to-day use of mobile phones
 - Conclusion
 - Notes

PART 2 STRUCTURES FOR SHARING

Strangers in the swarm
Mike Kent
 - The history of file sharing
 - Bit Torrent
 - Identities in the swarm
 - The future
 - Notes

Status (update) anxiety: social networking, Facebook and community
Amanda Evans
 - It’s all about me
 - Watching the self (being watched)
 - Notes

Becoming Mireila: a virtual ethnography through the eyes of an avatar
Faracy Grouse
 - Entry
 - Stripping Mireila
 - Feeders
 - Self
 - Notes

Taste is the enemy of creativity: disability, YouTube and a new language
Katie Ellis
 - Disability is a social construction
 - Lessons from Picasso
 - Digital disability
 - Notes

PART 3 PROFESSIONS, PRODUCTION, CONSUMPTIONS

The sound of a librarian: the politics and potential of podcasting in difficult times
Tara Brabazon
 - iPod studies
 - Why should librarians use podcasts?
 - Questions of quality
 - Notes

The invisible (wo)man
Tara Brabazon and Nazlin Bhimani
 - Introducing Nazlin
 - Endings
 - Notes

The impact of the video-equipped DSLR
Matthew Ingram
 - The video DSLR
 - A community of video cinematographers
 - The future
 - Notes

Why media literacy is transformative of the Irish education system: a statement in advocacy
Laura Kinsella
 - New literacies
 - Managing disadvantage
 - Multiliteracy for an Information Age
 - Notes

YouTube Academy
Tara Brabazon
 - Doing ‘everything’ with YouTube
 - Broadcasting academics
 - Notes

PART 4 FANDOM, CONSUMPTION AND COMMUNITY

Live fast, die young, become immortal
Katie Ellis
 - Prescience
 - Mediated grief
 - Living digital death
 - Notes

All we hear is Lady-o Gaga: Popular Culture 2.0
Alexander Cameron
 - Music
 - Gender and fashion
 - Fandom
 - Notes

Copyright and couture: the Comme il Faut experience
Leanne McRae
 - Intellectual property: copyrighting couture
 - Online retailers and the long tail of e-commerce
 - Fashion and failure
 - Comme il Faut couture
 - Notes

When community becomes a commodity
Mike Kent
 - Digital identity
 - Online communities
 - Google
 - Facebook
 - Online dating
 - Online games
 - Cultivating digital identity and harvesting digital community
 - Notes

Conclusion: white men rule?
Tara Brabazon
 - Maturing media
 - Notes