INTRODUCTION Where Is the Shaman?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. INTRODUCTION Where Is the Shaman? 1
6. PART I CONCEPTUALIZING ELECTRONIC TRIBES
7. CHAPTER 1 “A Tribe by Any Other Name . . .” 11
8. CHAPTER 2 Mimetic Kinship: Theorizing Online “Tribalism” 21
9. CHAPTER 3 Electronic Tribes (E-Tribes): Some Theoretical Perspectives and Implications 36
10. CHAPTER 4 Revisiting the Impact of Tribalism on Civil Society: An Investigation of the Potential Benefits of Membership in an E-Tribe on Public Discourse 58
11. PART II SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ELECTRONIC TRIBALISM
12. CHAPTER 5 Theorizing the E-Tribe on MySpace.com 79
13. CHAPTER 6 Don’t Date, Craftsterbate: Dialogue and Resistance on craftster.org 96
14. CHAPTER 7 Guild Life in the World of Warcraft: Online Gaming Tribalism 110
15. CHAPTER 8 At the Electronic Evergreen: A Computer-Mediated Ethnography of Tribalism in a Newsgroup from Montserrat and Afar 124
16. PART III EMERGING ELECTRONIC TRIBAL CULTURES
17. CHAPTER 9 “Like a neighborhood of sisters”: Can Culture Be Formed Electronically? 143
18. CHAPTER 10 Gerald M. Phillips as Electronic Tribal Chief: Socioforming Cyberspace 159
19. CHAPTER 11 Digital Dreamtime, Sonic Talismans: Music Downloading and the Tribal Landscape 177
20. CHAPTER 12 Magic, Myth, and Mayhem: Tribalization in the Digital Age 191
21. PART IV CYBERCRIME AND COUNTERCULTURE AMONG ELECTRONIC TRIBES
22. CHAPTER 13 Mundanes at the Gate . . . and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online 207
23. CHAPTER 14 Brotherhood of Blood: Aryan Tribalism and Skinhead Cybercrews 229
24. CHAPTER 15 Radical Tribes at Warre: Primitivists on the Net 251
25. CHAPTER 16 A “Tribe” Migrates Crime to Cyberspace: Nigerian Igbos in 419 E-Mail Scams 269
26. About the Contributors 289
27. Index 295