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...Zeynep Tufekci Hardly a month passes without a popular news outlet or a pundit asking if the Internet is making us lonely. Meanwhile, social media remains the Internet’s most popular application, and almost every empirical study suggests that Internet use corresponds to more social interaction...

... . “Walla chat”: An ethnographic view of an Israeli Internet chat site (in Hebrew). Kesher 30 : 77 -92. Cochran, Terry. 1999 . The linguistic economy of the cosmopolitical. boundary 2 26 ,no. 2: 59 -72. Crystal, David. 1997 . English as a global language . Cambridge: Cambridge University...

... v i s i b i l i t y Internet X-Ray: E-Governance, Transparency, and the Politics of Immediation in India William Mazzarella Sting Is it possible to cause a sensation...

... analysis and simulation of cities. While this campaign shares many similarities with computer-based efforts to study cities and inform urban policy during the United States’ urban crisis in the 1960s, the rise of the Internet presents new opportunities to involve citizens more actively, on a larger scale...

...Shameem Black This essay evaluates the contribution that sentimentality might make to cosmopolitan practices in contemporary life. In particular, it considers how the legacy of feminized sentimental fiction informs twenty-first-century rhetoric on the Internet. The essay examines how the person...

...—celebrities. There are through-lines among the essays (such as the interplay of amateur and professional or the tension between top-down and bottom-up processes of celebrity making), and read together they offer a rich comparative grasp of the complexities of celebrity and fame in the Internet age. 1...

...Henrietta L. Moore; Constance Smith In Kenya, the terms dotcom and digital have become popular descriptors for particular periods of change, as well as for modes of being. The two terms’ usage extends beyond reference to the age of the Internet or to encounters with new technologies. Rather...

... has also become fuzzier because the Internet era has blurred the boundaries between persons and media. We no longer have celebrity-producers on one side and fan-consumers on the other but instead have media users meeting on the same platforms to engage in very similar activities, which for both...

... on the Internet. Almost certainly, these are just the clumsy beginnings, some indication of how the direction of your thoughts and steps may be controlled in a future world by placing triggers that increase your probabilities to think and behave...

... more powerful and with more capacity than my laptop. And you’re in the throbbing heart of the Internet. And you really feel it. . . . Here was the ephemeral made real . —Steven Levy at a Google data center, quoted in Steve Inskeep, “The Brain of the Beast” The images and stories that translate...

... media platforms: to seek attention from celebrities in order to reach both them and their publics. The asymmetrical interdependence between celebrities and fans represents one arena where the Internet has not only sped up and extended celebrity culture but also significantly altered it. Most...

... a technological development that opens new opportunities, nor is it a new form of connectivity. Rather, what has developed is a specific style of how to interact with customers and with data, a style significantly different from the early stages of the Internet as mass media. Back then, in the early days...

... to be rethinking our responsibility to students starting college now, most of whom were born after the birth of the Internet. They don’t care about whether the world worked “better” or “worse” before they were born — nor should they. They have to figure out a way to get the best tools possible to succeed...

... the critical significance of media and mediation. I want to map some of the contours of this assumption. Consider the undersea cable systems that carry transoceanic Internet traffic. Surely, they are media. The glass strands of fiber-optic cables transmit infrared light; they are a physical substrate...

... . www.nytimes.com/1993/02/03/us/cia-nominee-wary-of-budget-cuts.html . Nakamura Lisa . 2007 . Digitizing Race: Visual Cultures of the Internet . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Nixon Rob . 2011 . Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor . Cambridge, MA : Harvard...

... the Internet and satellite television play mutually reinforcing roles. Celebrity is commonly understood as a sociocultural phenomenon ( Gamson 1994 ; Marshall 1997 ; Rojek 2001 , 2012 ). As Graeme Turner (2004 : 9) defines it, celebrity is “a genre of representation … a discursive effect … a commodity...

... competitors, a language war of the information age is taking shape with a distinctly bellicose rhetoric. Recent reports of attacks on Internet sites (Yahoo, Buy.com, eBay) consistently rely on the language of ballistics: assault, barrage...

... with Mostafa Kamal, the production manager of Azad Products, who explained that his staff had obtained the images of bin Laden by surfing var- ious open domain sites on the Internet and downloading several pictures of him, which they reproduced...

... platform Meetup.com as the “Amsterdam Internet of Things Meetup.” 1 Around that time, “Internet of things,” or IoT, was just becoming one of the buzzwords indicating the perceived burgeoning of a new technological paradigm, associated with environments becoming “smart” by means of objects fitted...

... something about the mediated experience of nature through digital media. 2015 authenticity cabins Internet mediation visual culture Once upon a place there was a cabin ( fig. 1 ). It doesn’t matter where or when; all we need to know is that it was somewhere else. It is dusk, or possibly...