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Bringing together the work of scholars, experts, and established online authors, this comprehensive book offers an analysis of contemporary web-based culture and arts plus the impact of the web on international economics, politics, and law. Featuring an introduction to the web and how it works, the book also outlines the theories and methodology of cyberculture studies and explores aspects of everyday life online: art and commerce, global communities and the politics of Internet access and activism. This second edition has content updates and new chapters on the latest developments and controversies in cyberspace.
David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Audiences at the University of Bournemouth.
Ross Horsley is completing a Ph.D. at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds. Bringing together the work of scholars, experts, and established online authors, this comprehensive book offers an analysis of contemporary web-based culture and arts plus the impact of the web on international economics, politics, and law. Featuring an introduction to the web and how it works, the book also outlines the theories and methodology of cyberculture studies and explores aspects of everyday life online: art and commerce, global communities and the politics of Internet access and activism. This second edition has content updates and new chapters on the latest developments and controversies in cyberspace. Bringing together the work of scholars, experts, and established online authors, this comprehensive book offers an analysis of contemporary web-based culture and arts plus the impact of the web on international economics, politics, and law. "A thoughtful and well-balanced general overview of the subject that will be required reading on many undergraduate courses."Convergence
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"A thoughtful and well-balanced general overview of the subject that will be required reading on many undergraduate courses."
—Convergence
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"A thoughtful and well-balanced general overview of the subject that will be required reading on many undergraduate courses."
ConvergenceReview
Praise for the first edition: "It is a thoughtful and well-balanced general overview of the subject that will be required reading on many undergraduate courses."--Convergence
Synopsis
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.
Synopsis
Comprehensive analysis of both contemporary web-based culture and arts and the impact of the internet on international economics, politics and law.
The new edition of Web.Studies incorporates not only the comprehensive analysis of Web-based culture and arts along with the effects of the internet on international economies, politics and law, but new chapters have been added focusing on the latest developments and controversies in cyberspace. Aspects of everyday life online are explored as well as art and commerce, global communities and the politics of internet access and activisim. It is an essential book for all students of Sociology, Media and Communication, studying the World Wide Web.
'It is a thoughtful and well-balanced general overview of the subject that will be required for reading on many undergraduate studies courses.' - Peter Dean in Convergance, 2002
'Web.Studies sets the agenda for a new period of media research, one that gets to grips with the significance of new communications technologies and the global spaces in which they are so repidly developing. I believe that this book will help considerably to take media studies in new directions.' - Professor Kevin Robins, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Synopsis
Bringing together the work of scholars, experts, and established online authors, this comprehensive book offers an analysis of contemporary web-based culture and arts plus the impact of the web on international economics, politics, and law.
Synopsis
Bringing together the work of scholars, experts, and established online authors, this comprehensive book offers an analysis of contemporary web-based culture and arts plus the impact of the web on international economics, politics, and law. Featuring an introduction to the web and how it works, the book also outlines the theories and methodology of cyberculture studies and explores aspects of everyday life online: art and commerce, global communities and the politics of Internet access and activism. This second edition has content updates and new chapters on the latest developments and controversies in cyberspace. David Gauntlett is Professor of Media and Audiences at the University of Bournemouth. Ross Horsley is completing a Ph.D. at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds. Bringing together the work of scholars, experts, and established online authors, this comprehensive book offers an analysis of contemporary web-based culture and arts plus the impact of the web on international economics, politics, and law. Featuring an introduction to the web and how it works, the book also outlines the theories and methodology of cyberculture studies and explores aspects of everyday life online: art and commerce, global communities and the politics of Internet access and activism. This second edition has content updates and new chapters on the latest developments and controversies in cyberspace. Bringing together the work of scholars, experts, and established online authors, this comprehensive book offers an analysis of contemporary web-based culture and arts plus the impact of the web on international economics, politics, and law. "A thoughtful and well-balanced general overview of the subject that will be required reading on many undergraduate courses."
ConvergenceAbout the Author
Edited by David Gauntlett, Professor of Media and Audiences, University of Bournemouth, and Ross Horsley, Lecturer, Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds.
Table of Contents
Part I. Web Studies
1. Web Studies: A User's Guide, David Gauntlett
2. Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: Cyberculture Studies 1990-2000, David Silver
3. New Media, New Methodologies: Studying the Web, Nina Wakeford
Part II. Web Life, Arts and Culture
4. A Home on the Web: Presentations of Self on Personal Homepages, Charles Cheung
5. I-love-Xena.com: Creating On-Line Fan Communities, Kirsten Pullen
6. Artists' Websites: Declarations of Identity and Presentations of Self, Eva Pariser
7. Webcam Women: Life on Your Screen, Donald Snyder
8. Queer 'n' Asion on--and off--the Net: The Role of Cyberspace in Queer Taiwan and Korea, Chris Berry and Fran Martin
9. The Web goes to pictures, David Gauntlett
10. The Teacher Review debate
--Teacher Review: Just what the internet was made for, Ryan Lathouwers and Amy Happ
--Teacher Review: the Dark Side of the Internet, Daniel Curzon-Brown
Part III. Web Business
11. Bad Web Design: The internet's real addiction problem, David Rieder
12. Pay per browse?: The Web's Commercial Features, Gerard Goggin
13. Search Engines, Portals, an Global Capitalism, Vincent Miller
14. Pornography on the Web, JoAnn di Filippo
15. Fascination: The Modern Allure of the Internet, Christopher R. Smit
16. The BBC Goes Online: Public Service Broadcasting in the New Media Age, Richard Naylor, Stephen Driver, and James Cornford
Part IV. Global Web Communities, Politics and Protest
17. World Wide Women and the Web, Wendy Harcourt
18. The Internet and Democracy, Stephen Lax
19. Community Development in the Cybersociety of the Future, Howard Rheingold
20. The Indian Diaspora in the USA and Around the Web, Madhavi Mallapragada
21. The Cherokee Indians and the Internet, Ellen L. Arnold and Darcy C. Plymire
22. The World Wide Web goes to War, Kosovo 1999, Philip M. Taylor
23. New Ways to Break the Law: Cybercrime and the Politics of Hacking, Douglas Thomas
24. The Future: Faster, smaller, more, more, more, David Gauntlett
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