Chapter 12 Bridging Cyberlife and Real Life: A Study of Online Communities in Hong Kong

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword: Dreams of Fields: Possible Trajectories of Internet Studies ix
4. Introduction Where Is Internet Studies? 1
5. Part I Fielding the Field
6. Chapter 1 The Historiography of Cyberculture 15
7. Chapter 2 Cultural Difference, Theory, and Cyberculture Studies: A Case of Mutual Repulsion 29
8. Chapter 3 How We Became Postdigital: From CyberStudies to Game Studies 37
9. Chapter 4 Internet Studies in Times of Terror 47
10. Chapter 5 Catching the Waves: Considering Cyberculture, Technoculture, and Electronic Consumption 55
11. Chapter 6 Cyberculture Studies: An Antidisciplinary Approach (version 3.0) 68
12. Part II Critical Approaches and Methods
13. Chapter 7 Finding the Quality in Qualitative Research 77
14. Chapter 8 Web Sphere Analysis and Cybercultural Studies 88
15. Chapter 9 Connecting the Selves Computer-Mediated Identification Processes 97
16. Chapter 10 The Structural Problems of the Internet for Cultural Policy 107
17. Chapter 11 Cultural Considerations in Internet Policy and Design: A Case Study from Central Asia 119
18. Chapter 12 Bridging Cyberlife and Real Life: A Study of Online Communities in Hong Kong 129
19. Chapter 13 Overcoming Institutional Marginalization 140
20. Chapter 14 The Vertical (Layered) Net: Interrogating the Conditions of Network Connectivity 159
21. Chapter 15 The Construction of Cybersocial Reality 168
22. Part III Cultural Difference in/and Cyberculture
23. Chapter 16 E-scaping Boundaries: Bridging Cyberspace and Diaspora Studies through Nethnography 179
24. Chapter 17 An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Study of Cybercultures 194
25. Chapter 18 An Action Research (AR) Manifesto for Cyberculture Power to “Marginalized” Cultures of Difference 205
26. Chapter 19 Cyberstudies and the Politics of Visibility 216
27. Chapter 20 Disaggregation, Technology, and Masculinity: Elements of Internet Research 228
28. Chapter 21 Gender, Technology, and Visual Cyberculture: Virtually Women 243
29. Part IV Critical Histories of the Recent Past
30. Chapter 22 How Digital Technology Found Utopian Ideology: Lessons from the First Hackers’ Conference 255
31. Chapter 23 Government.com: ICTs and Reforming Governance in Asia 270
32. Chapter 24 Dot-Coms and Cyberculture Studies Amazon.com as a Case Study 279
33. Chapter 25 Associating Independents Business Relationships and the Culture of Independence in the Dot-Com Era 294
34. About the Contributors 309
35. Index 315