Internationalizing Internet Studies Beyond Anglophone Paradigms [Paperback]

This timely book offers a mapping of the Internet as it has developed and is used internationally, providing a lively and challenging examination of the Internet and Internet studies. There is much interest among scholars and researchers in understanding the place of the Internet in cultural, social, national, and regional settings. This is the first book-length account that not only provides a range of perspectives on the international Internet, but also explores the implications of such new knowledge and accounts for concepts, methods, and themes in Internet studies. Of special interest will be the books fresh and up-to-date coverage of the Internet in perhaps the most dynamic region at present: Asia-Pacific.

Part I: Rethinking Internet Studies?  1. Internationalizing Internet StudiesBeyond Anglophone Paradigms Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland  2. What Cyberspace? Traveling Concepts in Internet Research Susanna Paasonen  3. Americanizing Palestine through Internet Development Helga Tawil-Souri  4. The International Turn in Internet Governance: A World of Difference? Gerard Goggin  Part II: Language Communities Online  5. Language on the Internet in Japan Nanette Gottlieb  6. More than Humor: Jokes from Russia as a Mirror of Russian Life Eugene Gorny  7. The Welsh language on the Internet: Linguistic Resistance in the Age of the Network Society Daniel Cunliff  8. The Fight of a Minority Language Against the Force of Globalization: The Case of Catalan on the Internet Josep Llu?s Mic? and Pere Masip  9. The German Internet Portal Indernet: A Space for Multiple Belongingness Urmila Goel  10. Serbian Minority/Refugees on Internet: In the Midst of Denial and Acceptanlƒ