Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub - Masculinties & Relationship Online

1. Auflage 2002
ISBN: 978-0-520-23038-5
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 309 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Lori Kendall is one of the first to explore the brave new world of social relations as they have evolved on the Internet. In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. The result is a first-rate analysis of the emerging social phenomenon of Internet-mediated communication and a ground-breaking study of the social and cultural effects of a medium that allows participants to assume identities of their own choosing. Despite the common assumption that the personas these men and women craft for themselves bear little resemblance to reality, Kendall discovers that the habitués of BlueSky stick surprisingly close to the facts of their actual lives and personalities.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kendall, Lori

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies: Homosexualität, LGBTQ+
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Digital Lifestyle Internet, E-Mail, Social Media
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Physische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
1. Blue Sky in the Morning
2. Logging On: An Introduction to BlueSky
3. Mudding History and Subcultures
4. Hanging Out in the Virtual Locker Room: BlueSky as a Masculine Space
5. Identity Crises
6. Computer-Mediated Relationships
7. Class, Race, and Online Participation
8. Hungover in the Virtual Pub: Power and Identity Online
Epilogue: The "Where Are They Now?" FAQ
Appendix A: Basic Mud Commands
Appendix B: "Mudders in the Mist": Ethnography in a "Partly Compatible" Setting
Appendix C: Unedited BlueSky Log from October 8, 1996
Notes
Glossary
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Lori Kendall is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Purchase College--State University of New York.