Cyber Selves

In her new book Gajjala examines online community formations and subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies and globalization. She describes the process of designing and building cyberfeminist webs for South Asian women's communities, the generation of feminist cyber(auto)ethnographies, and offers a third-world critique of cyberfeminism. She ultimately...

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In her new book Gajjala examines online community formations and subjectivities that are produced at the intersection of technologies and globalization. She describes the process of designing and building cyberfeminist webs for South Asian women's communities, the generation of feminist cyber(auto)ethnographies, and offers a third-world critique of cyberfeminism. She ultimately views virtual communities as imbedded in real life communities and contexts, with human costs. The online discussions are visible, textual records of the discourses that circulate within real life communities. Her methodology involves a form of 'cyberethnography,' which explores the dialogic and disruptive possibilities of the virtual medium and of hypertext. Gajjala's work addresses the political, economic, and cultural ramifications of the Internet communication explosion. This book will be a valuable reference for those with an interest in cultural studies, feminist studies, and new technologies.

Part 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Part 2 PROLOGUE: I REFUSE TO BE READ
Part 3 INTRODUCTION
Part 4 PART I: Cyborg-Diaspora to the SAWnet Refusal
Chapter 5 Chapter One: Imagining Virtual Community and Dialogic Encounters
Chapter 6 Chapter Two: The SAWnet Refusal
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Part 1 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Part 2 PROLOGUE: I REFUSE TO BE READ
Part 3 INTRODUCTION
Part 4 PART I: Cyborg-Diaspora to the SAWnet Refusal
Chapter 5 Chapter One: Imagining Virtual Community and Dialogic Encounters
Chapter 6 Chapter Two: The SAWnet Refusal
Chapter 7 Chapter Three: Feminist Ethnography, Feminist Media Studies, and Internet Research
Part 8 PART II: Building (South Asian) Cyberfeminist Webs?
Chapter 9 Chapter Four: Interrogating Identities: Composing Other Cyberspaces
Chapter 10 Chapter Five: Building Cyberfeminist Webs
Part 11 PART III: Cyberfeminism and the "third-world"-Dialogues
Chapter 12 Chapter Six: Cyberfeminism, technology, and international "development"
Chapter 13 Chapter Seven: Carving dis-appearing analogue/digital "selves"
Part 14 EPILOGUE: I WANT TO CURL UP AND DENY YOU
Part 15 REFERENCES
Part 16 ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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