Japanese cybercultures / edited by Mark McLelland and Nanette Gottlieb. - p. cm. - Asia's transformations . - Asia's transformations. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Internet--Social aspects--Japan
Popular culture--Japan

HN730.Z9 / I564 2003

303.48/33/0952