[Air-l] Internet and new media studies book published

[M White]

Hello, I announced this on AoIRFPTQslistservstserv
but thought I would mention it on this list as well.
My book on Internet and comspectatorshiporship--The
Body and the Screen: Theories of
IntSpectatorshiporship--was just published by MIT
Press. Many of you have contributed time and
suggestions to this project and I want to thank you
once again for your support. I thought that it would
be of interest toAoIRe AoIR readers because I consider
such things as the interface, the use of the term
“user,” how Internet engagements are gendered, the
varied forms of Internet work, programmers'
embodiment, and the issues surrdemanufacturingr
"demanufacturing." In this book, I pose hybrid
critical models and suggest how theories of
authorship, feminist and psychoanalytic film, gender
and queer studies, hypertextpostcolonial, and
postcolonial and critical race studies offer ways to
understand Ispectatorship and spectatorship. My hope
is that the critical models indicated in this book can
support ongoing Internet and computer research. I am
including full publication details and the table of
contents below. I would be happy to answer any
questions.

All my best,
Michele

White, Michele. The Body and the Screen:
TheSpectatorshiprnet Spectatorship. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2006. ISBN 0-262-23249-9

The Body, the Screen, and Representations: An
Introduction to TheSpectatorshiprnet Spectatorship	

1. Making Internet and Computer Spectators
IntroducLivenessRendering Liveness, Materiality, and
Space		
Notions of the Empowered User		
Addressing the Spectator		
Stabilizing Identity		
Erasing the Interface		
Conclusion: Active Users by Design		

2. Visual Pleasure through Textual PaMultis: Gazing in
Multi-user Object-oMOOsted Settings
(MOOs)MOOstroduction		
MOOs		
The Look and the Gaze		
Character Creation MOOsAttributes in MOOs		
The LooMOOsd the Gaze in MOOs		
GMOOsred Gazing in MOOs		
Graphical MOOs		
Conclusion: Between Multiple and Coherent Identity
		
3. Too Close to See, Too Intimate a
ScreenWebcamsWomen, and Webcams
IntroductioSpectatorship and Spectatorship		
Critical and Journalistic WebcamsratiWebcamsWebcams		
WebWebcams
Women and Webcams		
Regulating the SWebcamor		
Women Webcam Operators and Authority	Webcamsbility and
Webcams		
Making Texts Real		
SWebcamoblems with Webcam Viewing		
Just a Guy		
Conclusion: The Politics of Being Seen		

4. The Aesthetic of Failure: Confusing Spectators with
Net Art Gone Wrong	
Introduction		
Aesthetics and Net Art		
Net Art		
An Aesthetic of FailureLuiningi		
MichaëlLSamyng		
Michaël Samyn		
Conclusion: The Limits of Failure and Repetition		

5. Can You Read Me? Setting-specific Meaning in
Virtual Places (VP)
Introduction		
Virtual Places		
Avatars		
Painters and Avatar Galleries		
Owning Texts		
Criteria for Originality		
Theories of Internet Authorship		
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Avatar		
Making Differences in Virtual Places		
Conclusion: Authorship in Other Internet Settings		

6. This Is Not Photography, This Is Not a Cohesive
View: Computer-facilitated ImagiSpectatorshipnted
Spectatorship	
Introduction		
Making the Digital Imaging Spectator		
Photography		
Digital or Post-photography		
The Scanner aSelter's	Animalia SeltPunctumimalia
andSilton's		
Susan Silton's Self Portraits and Images of the
Partial Self		
Ken Gonzales-Day's Skin Series and the Cut		
The New Media Grid		
Conclusion: The Morphed Spectator		

Afterword
The Flat and the Fold: A ConsiderSpectatorshipdied
Spectatorship
IntrSelteron		
CaSiltonlter, Susan Silton, Ken Gonzales-Day, and the
Fold		
The Body Folded and Evacuated		
Hierarchy and Control		
The Spectator in Pain		
The Fat and the Fold		
Men and the Weight Loss "Challenge"		
Erotic Folding		
Conclusion: A Technology of Waste