I'm working with a Professor in the Communications, Culture and Technology program at Georgetown University in Washington, DC to create a syllabus for a Master's level class on Virtual Ethnicities. We're looking for potential readings, including materials that approach definitions of race and ethnicity online, the creation of online communities around shared definitions and communities that form in opposition to other groups (online hate groups). I've been looking through the AoIR-L archives, but I wondered if anyone had suggestions, particularly for newer articles/books.
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Amanda Lenhart alenhart@pewinternet.org
Hi Amanda, If you and your professor are not already aware of it, I'd recommend a careful tour through Macfadyen, L. P., Roche, J., and Doff, S. (2004). Communicating across Cultures in Cyberspace: A Bibliographical Review of Online Intercultural Communication. Hamburg: Lit-Verlag. It's certainly the most extensive bibliography on these intersections I know of - I can't recommend it highly enough. Good luck! And cheers, Charles Ess Fall '04: Fulbright Senior Scholar Universität Trier Fachbereich II Fakultäten der Medienwissenschaft, Sinologie Universitätsring 15 54296 Trier (Germany) Office phone: (49) (0)651-201-3744 Sekretariat: (49) (0)651-201-3203 Fax: (49) (0)651-201-3741 Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies Drury University 900 N. Benton Ave. Voice: 417-873-7230 Springfield, MO 65802 USA FAX: 417-873-7435 Home page: http://www.drury.edu/ess/ess.html Co-chair, CATaC: http://www.it.murdoch.edu.au/catac/ Exemplary persons seek harmony, not sameness. -- Analects 13.23