Congratulations to aoir member Lori Kendall on the release of her new book _Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online_ (U of California Press)! A copy just arrived in my morning mail and it looks wonderful. Back blurb reads: "In this highly readable ethnography, she examines how men and women negotiate their gender roles on an online forum she calls BlueSky. Despite the common assumpotion that the online personas people craft for themselves bear little resemblance to reality, Kendall discovers that the members of BluSkyu stick surprisingly close to the facts of their actual lives and personalities. "
I'd like to second Nancy's congratulations for Lori Kendall's book. I've been reading and assigning Lori's work for years and it's great to have it all within a single text. It's also exciting for the field of Internet studies to see yet another single-authored text focused on a particular site of study (like Miller and Slater's The Internet, Christine Hine's Virtual Ethnography, and Nancy's Tune In, Log On). We're maturing as a field, no? david silver On Fri, 7 Jun 2002, Nancy Baym wrote:
Congratulations to aoir member Lori Kendall on the release of her new book _Hanging Out in the Virtual Pub: Masculinities and Relationships Online_ (U of California Press)! A copy just arrived in my morning mail and it looks wonderful.
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