"YouTube hosts one billion visitors monthly and sees more than 400 hours of video uploaded every minute. An anthropological perspective on this mediated social environment, demonstrating how core concepts from anthropology-participant-observation, reciprocity, and community-apply to sociality and how to reconceptualize and update these concepts"--

Beth Porter presents The Net Effect - exploring not just how it evolved and what it does, but how it relates to the way we live. Most writing about the Net focuses on a particular aspect: its use for business, its driving technology, etc. This book aims at a broader target. It does contain some useful information about the How of the Internet, but it is more concerned with the Why of it.

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"EGirls, eCitizens is a landmark work that explores the many and varied forces shaping girls' and young women's experiences of privacy, identity, and equality in our digitally networked society. Drawing on the multi-disciplinary expertise of a remarkable team of leading Canadian and international scholars, as well as Canada's leading digital literacy organization, MediaSmarts, this edited collection definitively presents the complex realities of digitized...

Wir sitzen alle in der Plattformfalle. Doomscrolling ist die neue Normalität des digitalisierten 24/7-Online-Lebens. Wir sind scheinbar abhängig von großen Plattformen und finden nicht mehr ins unbeschwerte Zeitalter dezentraler Netzwerke zurück. Zoom-Müdigkeit, Cancel Culture, Krypto-Kunst, NFTs und psychische Regression bilden die zentralen Elemente einer allgemeinen Theorie der Plattformkultur. Geert Lovink zeigt auf, wie wir in dieser...

In this ethnography, Lori Kendall examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is an analysis of the emerging social phenomenon of Internet-mediated communication and a study of the social and cultural effects of a medium that allows participants to assume identities of their own choosing.

Multitasking teens can talk on their cell phones while instant messaging, then toggle between discussion board, blog, and e-mail account, possibly collaborate on a project, or more likely chat with friends. If technology is ever-present for this wireless generation, what is the best way to share lessons about online content, behavior, and ethics with these digital natives? Recognizing that teens are still teens, author and educator Jacobson draws...

"Net neutrality," a dry but crucial standard of openness in network access, began as a technical principle informing obscure policy debates but became the flashpoint for an all-out political battle for the future of communications and culture. Net Neutrality and the Struggle for the Open Internet is a critical cultural history of net neutrality that reveals how this intentionally "boring" world of internet infrastructure and regulation hides a fascinating...