| Living on Cybermind: Categories, Communication, and Control Contributor(s): Bigum, Chris (Editor), Knobel, Michele (Editor), Lankshear, Colin (Editor) |
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ISBN: 082049514X ISBN-13: 9780820495149 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $134.71 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2007 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Technology - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Social Science | Demography |
| Dewey: 303.483 |
| LCCN: 2007000753 |
| Series: New Literacies & Digital Epistemologies |
| Physical Information: 355 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Cybermind is an Internet mailing list, originally founded in 1994 to discuss the issues and problems of living online. It proved exceptionally fertile and is still going strong thirteen years later. This book is an ethnographic investigation which follows Cybermind members in their daily lives on the List, and explores the ways they look at the world, argue, relate online life to offline life, use gender, and build community. Perhaps the most comprehensive history of an Internet group ever published, it includes detailed analyses using List members' own words and commentary, and develops a unique theory of the relationship between culture, the problems of communication, and the ongoing processes of categorisation. Living on Cybermind illustrates how behaviour is affected by the organisation of communication, and how people deal with the paradoxes involved in resolving ambiguity and truth in a situation in which presence is always on the verge of slipping away. |