I find this book to be immensely helpful: Jones, Steven, ed. (1998) Doing Internet research: Critical Issues and Methods for Examining the Net. Because you also asked about self-presentation, here's some stuff that hasn't been mentioned yet: Miller, D. and Slater, D. (2001) The Internet: an ethnographic approach. Kvasny, L. and Igwe, C. F. (2007) An African-American weblog community's reading of AIDS in Black America Gajjala, R. (2004) Cyber Selves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women Gajjala, R. and Gajjala, V. (2008) South Asian Technospaces (Digital Formations) McGahan, C (2007) Race-ing Cyberculture: Minoritarian Art and Cultural Politics on the Internet. **self promotion** My dissertation is on African American online identity following Hurricane Katrina. I've also got an AOIR paper on the early Katrina research and some other stuff in the pipeline. Hit me up offlist if this stuff is of interest. André On 8/28/08 9:29 AM, "air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org" <air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org> wrote:

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