Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet investigates the forms and codes of the Internet as a popular medium and the ways in which women figure as users, content producers, and target audiences. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this book addresses issues of gendered identity and agency in the wider framework of consumer culture and uses of new media. Individual chapters explore personal and commercial web sites for women, constructions of lesbian identity, communities of female consumers and Vietnam veterans, women s web cam sites, educational experiences and information...
Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet investigates the forms and codes of the Internet as a popular medium and the ways in which women figure a...
The Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we communicate and experience our world as we have moved from the industrial era into the age of digital media.
Presents a wide range of original essays by established scholars in everything from online ethics to ways in which indigenous peoples now use the Internet
Looks at the role of the internet in modern societies, and the continuing development of internet studies as an academic field
Explores Internet studies through...
The Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we co...
Sports themed videogames represent a major subset of the general videogame market. Despite being a consistently produced and played genre of videogames, almost no research has been conducted that looks at sports themed videogames or those who love to play them. Sports Videogames hopes to fill this gap by starting a scholarly dialogue about sports videogames and those who play them. Organized into three sections--the art of the game, mediating play, and players--Sports Videogames offers rich case studies, theorization of play activities, and carefully considered analyses of players,...
Sports themed videogames represent a major subset of the general videogame market. Despite being a consistently produced and played genre of videog...
In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2011. Its devoted players, many of them middle-aged women, entered a world that did not build on common fantasy or science-fiction tropes. There was no evil to defeat or realms to conquer, only friendly animals to care for and pollution to fight.
In Players and Their Pets, Mia Consalvo and Jason Begy argue that its very difference makes it critically important--even more so than the large, commercially successful games such as...
In the world of massively multiplayer online games (MMOGs), Faunasphere was but a blip on the screen in its short public life from 2009 to 2...
