In her new book Gajjala examines online community formations and subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies and globalization. She describes the process of designing and building cyberfeminist webs for South Asian women's communities, the generation of feminist cyber(auto)ethnographies, and offers a third-world critique of cyberfeminism. She ultimately views virtual communities as imbedded in real life communities and contexts, with human costs. The online discussions are visible, textual records of the discourses that circulate within real life communities. Her methodology involves a form of 'cyberethnography,' which explores the dialogic and disruptive possibilities of the virtual medium and of hypertext. Gajjala's work addresses the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the Internet communication explosion. This book will be a valuable reference for those with an interest in cultural studies, feminist studies, and new technologies.
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Addresses the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the explosion of Internet communication. This book is suitable for those with an interest in ethnographic methods, cultural studies, feminist studies, and technologies.
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Part 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Part 2 PROLOGUE: I REFUSE TO BE READ Part 3 INTRODUCTION Part 4 PART I: Cyborg-Diaspora to the SAWnet Refusal Chapter 5 Chapter One: Imagining Virtual Community and Dialogic Encounters Chapter 6 Chapter Two: The SAWnet Refusal Chapter 7 Chapter Three: Feminist Ethnography, Feminist Media Studies, and Internet Research Part 8 PART II: Building (South Asian) Cyberfeminist Webs? Chapter 9 Chapter Four: Interrogating Identities: Composing Other Cyberspaces Chapter 10 Chapter Five: Building Cyberfeminist Webs Part 11 PART III: Cyberfeminism and the "third-world"-Dialogues Chapter 12 Chapter Six: Cyberfeminism, technology, and international "development" Chapter 13 Chapter Seven: Carving dis-appearing analogue/digital "selves" Part 14 EPILOGUE: I WANT TO CURL UP AND DENY YOU Part 15 REFERENCES Part 16 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Radhika Gajjala's Cyberselves asks all the essential questions about technology, diaspora, nationality, and gender in the age of the Internet. Her lyrical interventions into the form of the academic book disrupt expectations about what ethnography ought to look like, and her unusual perspective as a member and leader of early online community gives the book a welcome grounding in lived experience. Her earnest, passionate, and deeply felt intervention into cyberculture studies is grounded in an excellent knowledge of the most relevant theoretical debates regarding postcolonialism, gender, and technology. This book also includes an exciting dialogue with a South Asian women's labor activist, and is committed throughout to collaborative thinking and knowledge-creation. This is a very personal and intimate book, and a welcome addition to the existing body of literature on online ethnography.
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ISBN
9780759106918
Publisert
2004-11-23
Utgiver
Vendor
AltaMira Press
Vekt
404 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
168 mm
Dybde
17 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
170

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Radhika Gajjala is associate professor of Communication Studies at Bowling Green State University.