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Japanese Cybercultures
Hardback Edition: 1/2003
After English, Japanese is the most widely used language on the Internet. This book analyses the different applications and uses of the Internet in Japan. Introductory chapters focus on the development of the Internet in Japan and the online dynamics of Japanese language use.
Contents: Language,
representation and power on the Internet in Japan, Nanette Gottlieb; popular culture, individualization, individuality, interiority and the internet - Japanese university students and e-mail, Brian McVeigh; space invaders - the gender of post pet capital, Larissa Hjorth; mobile phones and deiai, Todd Holden; from subculture to cyberculture - the Japanese noise-alliance and its utilization of the internet, Costa Caspary and Wolfram Manzenreiter; bottlenecking - the play of identities across cultural lines, Gretchen Schoel; gender and sexuality - the "Japanese woman" mystique - looking for Japanese women's activism on the Web, Junko Onosaka; cybermasculinities - the internet and men's groups in Japan, Romit Dasgupta; private acts/public spaces - cruising for gay sex on the Japanese internet, Mark McLelland. (Part contents).
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Pages : 272
Publisher : Routledge
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Social Sciences, Sociology, Popular Culture