One book i would really recomend on this topic is Nils Zurawski (2000): Virtuelle Ethnizität. Studien zu Identität, Kultur und Internet. Unfortunatly in German, but i guess Nils is subscribed to air-list and you can contact him for english abstracts of his work. And there is an article from Mark Poster (1999) in Jones (Ed.): Cybersociety 2.0 called "Virtual Ethnicity". Both works deal mainly with ethnicity but also with the interconnected phenomenon nationalism.
Greetings, Philipp
Philipp and others..., I am flattered that you brought my book up here... indeed there is a website up with some stuff on it.. including chapters from the book in English.... http://www.uni-muenster.de/PeaCon/zurawski I believe it is easy to browse through, although the navigation is in German and half of the texts are as well... try it out if you like.... there seems to be more research and work going on on this subject... if it wasn't mentioned here.... Lisa Nakamuras work is worth looking at as well.....also the volume she edited with Beth Kolko and Gilbert (?) Rodman.. "Race in Cyberspace"..... there are also some ihnteresting articles ihn David Trend's "reading digital culture"....... (2000, I believe).. and a collegue of mine has done some work on the russian cyberspace in regards to literature and national identity and diaspora...... and from what I have seen in the reviewing process for IR 4.0 there will be interesting papers on this in Toronto.... best and peace nilz