Hi there- 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... De-lurk! Sorry to begin posting with an ad but hey, when your editor requests something, you oblige. Hope this will be of interest... Cheers, Mathieu ==================================================== Pre-order Web special: $16.72 USD (paperback) ***See: http://www.utexas.edu/utpress/excerpts/exadaele.html ==================================================== Electronic Tribes: The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers Edited by: Tyrone L. Adams, The University of Louisiana, Lafayette theswampboy@gmail.com & Stephen A. Smith, The University of Arkansas libertas@comp.uark.edu ==================================================== Foreword, Ronald E. Rice Acknowledgments Introduction: Where Is the Shaman? Jim Parker (copied below) Part I: Conceptualizing Electronic Tribes Chapter 1. "A Tribe by Any Other Name . . . ," Tyrone L. Adams and Stephen A. Smith Chapter 2. Mimetic Kinship: Theorizing Online "Tribalism," Veronica M. Davidov and Barbara Andersen Chapter 3. Electronic Tribes (E-Tribes): Some Theoretical Perspectives and Implications, Bolanle Olaniran 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, Christina Standerfer Part II: Social Consequences of Electronic Tribalism Chapter 5. Theorizing the E-Tribe on MySpace.com, David R. Dewberry Chapter 6. Don't Date, Craftsterbate: Dialogue and Resistance on craftster.org, Terri L. Russ Chapter 7. Guild Life in the World of Warcraft: Online Gaming Tribalism, Thomas Brignall III Chapter 8. At the Electronic Evergreen: A Computer-Mediated Ethnography of Tribalism in a Newsgroup from Montserrat and Afar, Jonathan Skinner Part III: Emerging Electronic Tribal Cultures Chapter 9. "Like a neighborhood of sisters": Can Culture Be Formed Electronically? Deborah Clark Vance Chapter 10. Gerald M. Phillips as Electronic Tribal Chief: Socioforming Cyberspace, Ann Rosenthal Chapter 11. Digital Dreamtime, Sonic Talismans: Music Downloading and the Tribal Landscape, Michael C. Zalot Chapter 12. Magic, Myth, and Mayhem: Tribalization in the Digital Age, Leonie Naughton Part IV: Cybercrime and Counterculture among Electronic Tribes Chapter 13. Mundanes at the Gate . . . and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online, Steve Abrams and Smaragd Grün Chapter 14. Brotherhood of Blood: Aryan Tribalism and Skinhead Cybercrews, Jody M. Roy Chapter 15. Radical Tribes at Warre: Primitivists on the Net, Mathieu O'Neil Chapter 16. A "Tribe" Migrates Crime to Cyberspace: Nigerian Igbos in 419 E-Mail Scams, Farooq A. Kperogi and Sandra Duhé About the Contributors Index ==================================================== Dr Mathieu O'Neil Adjunct Research Fellow Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute The Australian National University ACT 0200 - Australia --- Tel.: (61 02) 61 25 38 00 E-mail: mathieu.oneil@anu.edu.au Web: http://adsri.anu.edu.au/people/visitors/mathieu.php