TY  - BOOK
AU  - McLelland,Mark J.
AU  - Gottlieb,Nanette
TI  - Japanese cybercultures
T2  - Asia's transformations
SN  - 0415279186
AV  - HN730.Z9 I564 2003
U1  - 303.48/33/0952 21
PY  - 2003///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Internet
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Japan
KW  - Popular culture
N1  - 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
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