[Air-L] Electronic Tribes

[Mathieu O'Neil]

Hi there-

5, 4, 3, 2, 1... De-lurk!

Sorry to begin posting with an ad but hey, when your editor requests 
something, you oblige.
Hope this will be of interest...

Cheers,

Mathieu

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Electronic Tribes:
The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers

Edited by:

Tyrone L. Adams, The University of Louisiana, Lafayette
theswampboy at gmail.com

&

Stephen A. Smith, The University of Arkansas
libertas at comp.uark.edu

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Foreword, Ronald E. Rice

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Where Is the Shaman? Jim Parker (copied below)

Part I: Conceptualizing Electronic Tribes

Chapter 1. "A Tribe by Any Other Name . . . ," Tyrone L. Adams and
Stephen A. Smith

Chapter 2. Mimetic Kinship: Theorizing Online "Tribalism," Veronica M.
Davidov and Barbara Andersen

Chapter 3. Electronic Tribes (E-Tribes): Some Theoretical Perspectives
and Implications, Bolanle Olaniran

Chapter 4. Revisiting the Impact of Tribalism on Civil Society: An
Investigation of the Potential Benefits of Membership in an E-Tribe on
Public Discourse, Christina Standerfer

Part II: Social Consequences of Electronic Tribalism

Chapter 5. Theorizing the E-Tribe on MySpace.com, David R. Dewberry

Chapter 6. Don't Date, Craftsterbate: Dialogue and Resistance on
craftster.org, Terri L. Russ

Chapter 7. Guild Life in the World of Warcraft: Online Gaming
Tribalism, Thomas Brignall III

Chapter 8. At the Electronic Evergreen: A Computer-Mediated
Ethnography of Tribalism in a Newsgroup from Montserrat and Afar,
Jonathan Skinner

Part III: Emerging Electronic Tribal Cultures

Chapter 9. "Like a neighborhood of sisters": Can Culture Be Formed
Electronically? Deborah Clark Vance

Chapter 10. Gerald M. Phillips as Electronic Tribal Chief:
Socioforming Cyberspace, Ann Rosenthal

Chapter 11. Digital Dreamtime, Sonic Talismans: Music Downloading and
the Tribal Landscape, Michael C. Zalot

Chapter 12. Magic, Myth, and Mayhem: Tribalization in the Digital Age,
Leonie Naughton

Part IV: Cybercrime and Counterculture among Electronic Tribes

Chapter 13. Mundanes at the Gate . . . and Perverts Within: Managing
Internal and External Threats to Community Online, Steve Abrams and
Smaragd Grün

Chapter 14. Brotherhood of Blood: Aryan Tribalism and Skinhead
Cybercrews, Jody M. Roy

Chapter 15. Radical Tribes at Warre: Primitivists on the Net, Mathieu 
O'Neil

Chapter 16. A "Tribe" Migrates Crime to Cyberspace: Nigerian Igbos in
419 E-Mail Scams, Farooq A. Kperogi and Sandra Duhé

About the Contributors

Index

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Dr Mathieu O'Neil
Adjunct Research Fellow
Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute
The Australian National University
ACT 0200 - Australia
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E-mail: mathieu.oneil at anu.edu.au
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