I can't remember having seen this book mentioned on this list, so I'm forwarding (via ANKN and Cyberculture mailinglists, see details in footers). Frank. ---- New Book Available: Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online By Neil Blair Christensen For more information and to order please see: http://www.mtp.dk/catalogue?m=bi&id=684 -------------------- I am delighted to be able to write to you now and inform you that Inuit in Cyberspace has recently been published. In this cyber-ethnography, I explore the processes by which a wide selection of personal, local, cultural and national identities are expressed and understood on the Internet. The different Inuit peoples of the circumpolar Arctic have always taken active part in the world, but their contemporary use of Internet(s) has affected even more their relative isolation - one that comes from living in a peripheral region of the world. Yet, Inuit and others are constructing web pages with social and physical references that sustain an imagined Arctic remoteness; a logic that seems to be a key aspect of Inuit identities and cultures. The book brings together in analysis and discussion the realities of contemporary Inuit, the myth of cyberspace, a selection of dynamic strategies for identification, as well as a discussion of online methods for research. It concludes that Inuit dynamically remain Inuit, in all their diversity, regardless of an imagined compression of time and space; their use of changing technologies, or participation in enlarged social networks. It carries a series of new perspectives for the researched and the researcher. Kind regards Neil Blair Christensen http://www.nbc.brygge.dk Christensen, Neil Blair: Inuit in Cyberspace: Embedding Offline Identities Online, 2003, 135 pages, ISBN 87-7289-723-6. Prices: $19, ¤ 20, £14, DKK 148 Contents Introduction: Shifting Boundaries Modern Tradition Escape Cyberspace Old frontiers in new space I Going Nowhere to get Everywhere Online survey E-mail interviews Content analysis of web pages Wanted: practical method II (Re)producing the Arctic in Cyberspace The myth of cyberspace Peripherality on the Net Three regions: Canadian Artic, Greenland, and Alaska Bridging a gap? III A Common Web of Difference and Similarity Recursive dynamics: social boundaries and cultural stuff Us and them: self-identify by identifying others Taloyoak in cyberspace Native language Guestbooks Intelligible boundaries IV Perceiving Cyberspace Engaging with the world Disengaging from abstract theory Continuity? Accept Change and Understand Context ____________________ [Via / From / Thanks to and/or excerpted from the following: ] ___________________ Please send your contributions for the ANKN Listserv to Sean.Topkok@uaf.edu or Paula.Elmes@uaf.edu This is a moderated listserv, so contributions can be only sent by Paula or Sean.Ê If you have any suggestions, questions, or comments, please email Sean or Paula Elmes: Paula.Elmes@uaf.edu. If you want to be removed from the ANKN Listserv or know of someone to be included, please contact Sean or Paula. ANKN website: http://www.ankn.uaf.edu ANKN Listserv Archives: http://www.ankn.uaf.edu/anknlistserv/ -- Cyberculture@zacha.org http://www.zacha.org/mailman/listinfo/cyberculture http://www.cyberculture.zacha.org/ --- END OF FORWARDED MESSAGE -------------------------------------------