Japanese cybercultures / edited by Mark McLelland and Nanette Gottlieb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. The Internet in Japan / Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland -- Pt. I. Popular culture. 2. Individualization, individuality, interiority, and the Internet: Japanese university students and e-mail / Brian J. McVeigh. 3. Deai-kei: Japan's new culture of encounter / Todd Joseph Miles Holden and Takako Tsuruki. 4. Cute@keitai.com / Larissa Hjorth. 5. From subculture to cybersubculture? The Japanese Noise alliance and the Internet / Costa Caspary and Wolfram Manzenreiter. 6. Filling in the blanks: lessons from an Internet Blues jam / Gretchen Ferris Schoel -- Pt. II. Gender and sexuality. 7. Challenging society through the information grid: Japanese women's activism on the Net / Junko R. Onosaka. 8. Cybermasculinities: masculinities and the Internet in Japan / Romit Dasgupta. 9. "Net"-working on the Web: links between Japanese HIV patients in cyberspace / Joanne Cullinane. 10. Private acts/public spaces: cruising for gay sex on the Japanese Internet / Mark McLelland -- Pt. III. Politics and religion. 11. The great equalizer? The Internet and progressive activism in Japan / David McNeill. 12. Creating publics and counterpublics on the Internet in Japan / Vera Mackie. 13. Language, representation and power: Burakumin and the Internet / Nanette Gottlieb. 14. Activism and the Internet: Japan's 2001 history-textbook affair / Isa Ducke. 15. Self-representation of two new religions on the Japanese Internet: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seicho no Ie / Petra Kienle and Birgit Staemmler.