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Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women by Radhika Gajjala HC
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780759106918
- Subject Area
- Computers, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Cyber Selves : Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women
- Publisher
- Altamira Press
- Item Length
- 9.3 in
- Subject
- Social Aspects / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Item Weight
- 14.3 Oz
- Item Width
- 6.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 170 Pages
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Altamira Press
ISBN-10
0759106916
ISBN-13
9780759106918
eBay Product ID (ePID)
30544239
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Number of Pages
170 Pages
Publication Name
Cyber Selves : Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women
Language
English
Publication Year
2004
Subject
Social Aspects / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Computers, Social Science
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.3 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.6 in
Additional Product Features
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Trade
LCCN
2004-007281
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Using cyber-ethnographic methodology and feminist theoretical framwork, [Gajjala] has studies the structure and content of exchanges among paricipants (netizens) in these virtual communities to answer fundamental questions about virtual communities...Theauthor's critical and reflective analysis challenges students of feminist studies and of online communication studies to reconsider the assumption that internet communication in the globalized world is a power equalizerrrr, 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., ...insightful. It highlights several important issues, not only online practices that lead to an 'insider' becoming an 'outsider', but more importantly women only spaces on the Web., Gajjala's book is uniquely personal, uniquely insightful, and uniquely provocative. It adds new and important dimensions to the study of identity, race, and communication, on the internet as well as in the world offline., This probing and thoughtful work begins by addressing the politics of enunciation within diasporic cyberspaces, illustrating the kinds of complicities and resistances that get articulated through the struggle for control over meaning-making in such spaces. The book concludes by challenging us to think about how internet technologies could be redesigned to enable a truly dialogic exchange across gender, race, class and geographic location.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
305.42
Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
In her new book Gajjala addresses the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the explosion of Internet communication. She has developed a cyberethnography_based on case studies with email discussion lists such as the South Asian Women's list, the third-world-women list, the women-writing-culture list and the sa-cyborgs list_which examines the issues these lists raise regarding discursive production within an intellectual power field. This book will be a valuable reference for those with an interest in ethnographic methods, cultural studies, feminist studies, and new technologies., 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., 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
LC Classification Number
HQ1178.G35 2004
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