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Japanese cybercultures / edited by Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland ; with a preface by David Gauntlett.

Title
Japanese cybercultures / edited by Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland ; with a preface by David Gauntlett.
Publication
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

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Additional Authors
  • Gottlieb, Nanette, 1948-
  • McLelland, Mark J., 1966-2020
Description
xv, 252 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
After English, Japanese is the most widely used language on the Internet. This text looks at the development of the Internet in Japan, the online dynamics of Japanese language use and the differing ways in which broad groups such as men, women and students use the Internet.
Series Statement
Asia's transformations. Asia.com
Uniform Title
Asia's transformations. Asia.com.
Subjects
Note
  • "@sia.com"--Cover.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-249) and index.
Contents
The Internet in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland -- Individualization, individuality, interiority and the Internet: Japanese university students and e-mail / Brian McVeigh -- Deai-Kei: Japan's new culture of encounter / Todd Joseph Miles Holden and Takako Tsuruki -- Cute@keitai.com / Larissa Hjorth -- From subculture to cyberculture: the Japanese noise-alliance and its utilization of the Internet / Costa Caspary and Wolfram Manzenreiter -- Filling in the blanks: lessons from an Internet blues jam / Gretchen Ferris Schoel -- Challenging society through the information grid: Japanese women's activism on the net / Junko R. Onasaka -- Cybermasculinities: the Internet and men's groups in Japan / Romit Dasgupta -- 'Net'-working on the web: links between Japanese HIV patients in cyberspace / Joanne Cullinane -- Private acts/public spaces: cruising for gay sex on the Japanese Internet / Mark McLelland -- The great equalizer? The Internet and progressive activism in Japan / David McNeill -- Creating publics and counterpublics on the Internet in Japan / Vera Mackie -- Language, representation and power: Burakumin and the Internet / Nanette Gottlieb -- Activism and the Internet: Japan's 2001 history-textbook affair / Isa Ducke -- Self-representation of two new religions on the Japanese Internet: Jehovah's witnesses and Seichō no ie / Petra Kienle and Birgit Staemmler.
ISBN
  • 0415279186 (hbk.)
  • 0415279194 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2002068280
OCLC
  • 50270971
  • SCSB-13748050
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library