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Intro -- The Real and the Virtual: Critical Issues in Cybercultures -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I. Theories and Concepts of Cyberspace and Cyberculture -- Redefining the Body in Cyberculture: Art's Contribution to a New Understanding of Embodiment -- Human Bodies in Cyberspace -- PART II. Online Communities, Web 2.0 and Emerging Practices In Social Networking -- Hybrid Communities to Digital Arts Festivals: From Online Discussions to Offline Gatherings -- This Time It's Personal: Social Networks, Viral Politics and Identity Management -- The Second Self Through Second Life -- PART III: Cybersubcultures -- Sex, Sexuality, and Cyberspace -- The Use of Social Networking Sites And Their Relation to Users' Offline Networks -- Cybergrace Among Eating Disorder Survivors in Singapore -- PART IV: The Future of Interactive Entertainment -- Playing Games as an Art Experience -- Anthropology of Accessibility: The Perceptual Problems of Human-Computer Interactions -- PART V: Social Presence in Virtual Worlds -- Social Nature of Time and Space in Online Games: Designing Fantastic Social Worlds -- Web Based Authorship in the Context of User Generated Content: An Analysis of a Turkish Web Site: Eksi Sozluk -- PART VI: The Cultures of Online Learning and Educational Use of Videogames -- The 3-D Virtual Library Concept Revisited -- Cyberculture: Learning New Literacies through Machinima -- PART VII: Digital Art and Interactive Storytelling -- 'Print Novels and the Mark of the Digital': Mark Z. Danielewski's Only Revolutions and Media Convergence -- Intermedial Performance: Digital Connectivity -- PART VIII: Cyber-Policy and Cyber-Democracy and their Impact on National and Global Politics -- Governance and the Global Metaverse -- Politics and Social Software: Recommendations for Inclusive ICTs.

Preliminary Material -- The Doubtful Chances of Choice /Imre Bárd -- Technoscience and Schizophrenia: The Technological Production of Nature and Biology under Control /Tamar Sharon -- A Phenomenological Analysis of Social Networking /Leighton Evans -- My Self, My Avatar, My Rights? Avatar Identity in Social Virtual Worlds /Melissa de Zwart and David Lindsay -- Too Faced? Reconsidering Friendship in the Digital Age /Jordan J. Copeland -- Experiences of Embodiment and Subjectivity in Haunting Ground /Ewan Kirkland -- Trans-Generational Dialogues: Social Sciences as Multimedia Games /Peter Ludes -- Interactive 3-D Documentary as Serious Videogame /Daniel Riha -- Ecosystem of Knowledge: Strategies, Rituals and Metaphors in Networked Communication /Anna Maj and Michal Derda-Nowakowski -- Gender Resistance: Interrogating the 'Punk' in Cyberpunk /Katherine Harrison -- What Does a Scanner See? Techno-Fascination and Unreliability in the Mind-Game Film /Laura Schuster -- Modern Myths: Science Fiction in the Age of Technology /Michael J. Klein -- 'Cyborg Art' as a Critical Sphere of Inquiry into Increasing Corporeal Human-Technology Merger /Elizabeth Borst -- Digital Dance: Encounters between Media Technologies and the Dancing Body /Zeynep Gündüz.

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Intro -- New Media and the Politics of Online Communities -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: Concepts of Cyberspace and Cyberculture -- Electronic Kairos -- Authenticity Online: Using Webnography to Address Phenomenological Concerns -- PART II: Cyberculture, National Identity and Diaspora -- Stresses Upon An Emergent Imagined Community: Results and Insights from the Emirates Internet Project -- The Role of Online Communities in Social Networking among Polish Migrants in the United Kingdom -- Emerging Communication Practices and Immigrant Adolescents in their Developmental Process -- PART III: Fan Cultures Online -- The Darker Side of Slash Fanfiction on the Internet -- Virtual Friends: Experiences of an Online Fan Community -- Music Blogs, Music Scenes, Sub-Cultural Capital: Emerging Practices in Music Blogs -- PART IV: Cultures on Online Learning -- E-Learning 2.0 as Reciprocal Learning -- New Media Literacies of Future Mother Tongue Teachers -- PART V: Changing Identities in Cyberspace -- Cloakroom Communities and Cyberspace: Towards a Concept of 'Pseudo-Environmental' Niche -- Identity Representations through Machinima Creation -- Artistic Identity within Cyberspace: Issues go Global, Interdisciplinary Projects do Evolve - A Personal View -- PART VI: The Future Platforms -- Machinimation Tools and their Impact on Creativity -- Media Convergence and the Future of Online Platforms -- Gaming Potential of Augmented Reality -- PART VII: Controversial Issues in Cyberlife -- Election 2.0: How to Use Cyber Platforms to Win the US Presidential Elections - An Investigation into the Changing Communication Strategies of Election Candidates -- Click Here to Protest: Electronic Civil Disobedience and the Future of Social Mobilisation -- Cybertrauma and Technocultural Shock in Contemporary Media Culture.

Preliminary Material /Nick Webber and Daniel Riha -- Prop Theory for Game Aesthetics /Chris Bateman -- Beyond Game-Fun /Adam W. Ruch -- Counterplay in the City: Exploiting Urban Spaces through Location-Based Gaming /Dale Leorke -- Ludic Interfaces /Mathias Fuchs , Georg Russegger and Moisés Mañas Carbonell -- Rapid State of Mind: What Rapid Prototyping Has to Teach Us /Jacob Naasz -- Driving Forces of Narrative in Videogames /Phonesury Lily Ounekeo -- The Potential of Video Games in Public Health Communication /Marcelo Simão de Vasconcellos and Inesita Soares de Araújo -- Biometric Storyboards to Improve Understanding of the Players' Gameplay Experience /Pejman Mirza-Babaei and Graham McAllister -- From Sackboy to Scribblenaut: Rethinking Videogame Cocreation /Dimitrios Pavlounis -- Videogames as Micro-Resistance /Cameron Vaziri -- 'Popping the Other': Orientalism, Appropriation and Assemblage in Little Big Planet /Ewan Kirkland -- Videogames.ru: Constructing New Russian Identities in Virtual Worlds /Catherine Goodfellow -- 'Girls Don't Play Video Games': How Gender Identity in Hobbies Can Affect Career Choice /Marian Carr , Rupert Ward , Nigel King , Simon Goodson and Sarah Jane Robinson -- Digital Companions: Analysing the Emotive Connection between Players and NPC Companions in Video Game Space /Julienne Greer -- More Fun Writing Than Playing: The Critical Videogame Blogosphere as Emerging Approach to Knowledge Creation /Ben Abraham -- Grief Play, Deviance and the Practice of Culture /Nick Webber -- Gaming through Historical Simulations: An Easy Target for a Public Attack? /Daniel Riha.

Preliminary Material -- This Time It's Personal: Social Networks, Viral Politics and Identity Management /Nils Gustafsson -- Anthropology of Accessibility: Further Reflections on the Perceptual Problems of Human-Computer Interactions /Anna Maj and Michal Derda-Nowakowski -- Politics and Social Software: Recommendations for Inclusive ICTs /Christina Neumayer , Celina Raffl and Robert M. Bichler -- Governance and the Global Metaverse /Melissa de Zwart and David Lindsay -- Hybrid Communities to Digital Arts Festivals: From Online Discussions to Offline Gatherings /Donata Marletta -- Playing Games as an Art Experience: How Videogames Produce Meaning through Narrative and Play /Jef Folkerts -- The 3-D Virtual Library as a Value-Added Library Service /Daniel Riha -- Learning New Literacies through Machinima /Theodoros Thomas -- Youth Connecting Online: From Chat Rooms to Social Networking Sites /Natalia Waechter , Kaveri Subrahmanyam , Stephanie M. Reich and Guadalupe Espinoza -- Cybergrace among Eating Disorder Survivors in Singapore /Chand Somaiah.