Internationalizing Internet studies : beyond anglophone paradigms / edited by Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland.

"Transferred to Digital Printing 2009."--T.p. verso of paperback edition

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Rethinking Internet Studies? -- 1. Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms / Gerard Goggin and Mark Mclelland -- 2. What Cyberspace? Traveling Concepts in Internet Research / Susanna Paasonen -- 3. Americanizing Palestine Through Internet Development / Helga Tawil-Souri -- 4. The International Turn in Internet Governance: A World of Difference? / Gerard Goggin -- Pt. II. Language Communities Online -- 5. Language on the Internet in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb -- 6. More than Humor: Jokes from Russia as a Mirror of Russian Life / Eugene Gorny -- 7. The Welsh Language on the Internet: Linguistic Resistance in the Age of the Network Society / Daniel Cunliffe -- 8. The Fight of a Minority Language Against the Force of Globalization: The Case of Catalan on the Internet / Josep Lluis Mico and Pere Masip -- 9. The German Internet Portal Indernet: A Space for Multiple Belongingness / Urmila Goel -- 10. Serbian Minority/Refugees on the Internet: In the Midst of Denial and Acceptance of Reality / Ljiljana Gavrilovic -- Pt. III. Islam, Modernity, and the Internet -- 11. Modems, Malaysia, and Modernity: Characteristics and Policy Challenges in Internet-Led Development / Nasya Bahfen -- 12. Muslim Voices in the Blogosphere: Mosaics of Local-Global Discourses / Merlyna Lim -- 13. The Internet in Iran: The Battle Over an Emerging Virtual Public Sphere / Gholam Khiabany and Annabelle Sreberny -- Pt. IV. Asian Cybercultures -- 14. Internet, Internet Culture, and Internet Communities of Korea: Overview and Research Directions / Seunghyun Yoo -- 15. Gifts of Presence: A Case Study of a South Korean Virtual Community, Cyworld's Mini-hompy / Larissa Hjorth -- 16. Affiliation in Political Blogs in South Korea: Comparing Online and Offline Social Networks / Han Woo Park and Randy Kluver -- 17. Beauty Is in the Eye of the QQ User: Instant Messaging in China / Pamela T. Koch, Bradley J. Koch, Kun Huang and Wei Chen -- 18. That Global Feeling: Sexual Subjectivities and Imagined Geographies in Chinese-Language Lesbian Cyberspaces / Fran Martin -- 19. Online Tongzhi? Subcultural Practices in the Gay and Lesbian Community of Spiteful Tots / Terri He -- 20. Going Mobile: The Mobile Internet, Ringtones, and the Music Market in Japan / Noriko Manabe.

This timely book offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing a lively and challenging examination of the Internet and Internet studies. There is much interest among scholars and researchers in understanding the place of the Internet in cultural, social, national, and regional settings. This is the first book-length account that not only provides a range of perspectives on the international Internet, but also explores the implications of such new knowledge and accounts for concepts, methods, and themes in Internet studies. Of special interest will be the book{u2019}s fresh and up-to-date coverage of the Internet in perhaps the most dynamic region at present: Asia-Pacific.

First published: 2009.