...Tomomi Yamaguchi This article investigates the use of online communication and social media in connection with the recently emerged right-wing, xenophobic movement in contemporary Japan. Since the early 2000s there has been a surge in xenophobic and racist discourse on the Internet, tied...

...Dara N. Byrne This article focuses on the rhetorical performance of justice and punishment on the website 419eater.com , one of the largest digilante social networks online. Digilantism refers to the growing practice among some Internet users, mostly based in the United States and the United...

... STS-informed studies. Examples include landmark works such as the 1960s research on the origins of psychology by Joseph Ben-David and Randall Collins or, to offer more recent examples, Nathan Ensmenger's work on the cultural politics of early computer experts and Katie Shilton's on Internet...

...Lyell Davies; Elena Razlogova The introductory essay provides historical and analytical background for articles included in this special issue. It covers the historical methodologies for studying the very recent past, the history of digital culture and the Internet, the interaction between...

... the Internet digital resources related to the epochal events of a decade ago. The authors, two of the project's three executive producers (the third being the late Roy Rosenzweig), discuss various collecting and organizational issues involved in building a digital archive. They also discuss the effort...

... and discuss Wikileaks cables is indicative of the Internet's effects on the circulation of information even in constrained environments. © 2013 by MARHO: The Radical Historians' Organization, Inc. 2013 Cablegate in the Congo: Mapping the Digital Trail of Wikileaks Cables about the “Forgotten” DRC...

... are now in online archives accessible to anyone at any time through Hezbollah's Internet sites. Stemming from Michel Foucault's and Edward Said's notions of power and knowledge, the article reads these videos as a strategy of resistance and as an attempt at self-representation that defies and inverts...

... how to tell their own stories so that they might write their own lives into the historical record, on their own terms. The Internet provides a tremendous opportunity to disseminate these valuable oral history interviews. This article explores the conflict between the liberationist impulse to uncover...

... as a monad. This power, however, is fleeting as history is yet again rendered latent and forgotten once it is transformed into a gesture or everyday common sense. In this article, Stefka Hristova offers a comparative analysis of two Internet-driven participatory memes — “Pepper Spray Cop” and “Doing...

... Black Studies No other medium or information technology developed during the twentieth cen- tury mirrors the transnationalism of the black world much like the Internet. Broad- cast media have limited reach—broadcasts can only reach people within the bound...

... movement of today was launched. How do you define media justice? We define media justice in three ways: rights, access, and power. Access means we want access to the pipeline, to the Internet or other media platforms. This is why policy is important, because it shapes whether we have access...

... the hardware of wide knitting frames, shearing frames, gig mills, and power looms, the hackers and activists affiliated with Anonymous hack passwords and firewalls, protected databases, and Internet filtering software.1 Although the difference between targeting hardware and software is not a minor one...

..., and Society in Iran: Living with Globaliza- tion and the Islamic State and Nasrin Alavi’s We Are Iran: The Persian Blogs reflect the continuing draw of the media, particularly Internet-based media, as sites for examining Iranian politics and political culture. With the exception of one article...

... a historical and analytical background for the articles included in this special issue. By examining historical methodologies for studying the very recent past, they trace the history of digital culture and the Internet, exploring the interaction between information and communication technologies...

..., and invincible. Recent changes in video, audio, and Internet technology have done for independent media what the copy machine did for print media: democratize the medium. News and information production is becoming more decentered as groups from around the globe search...

... A NET After a year or two of frenzied celebrations of the Internet and the Web, it is not surprising that the skeptical counter-reactions have begun to set in. What is curious, though, is the strange (or perhaps not so strange) bedfellows that Webcriticism has made. Some time 184/RADICAL...

... and that we must attend to the contexts in which specific texts circulate. Viewers read and use media in strikingly differ- ent ways. They adopt diverse strategies when they watch media,3 utilize spaces on the Internet to engage in discourse and build community,4 and remake texts in ways that remove...

... devices to Internet serv- ers, microwave ovens to X-­ray machines, all of which operate at various frequencies in the electromagnetic spectrum. My analysis focuses on a closely related pair of historical developments in this Commons, namely the militarization of electromag- netic fields...

... Manhattan, as people spontaneously created networks of communication, using every available form of technology from disposable cameras to the Internet, in order to connect, record, and grieve. The 1990s were years of intense activity...

... with a paintball gun that viewers could shoot at me by activating it over the Internet — a statement on the Iraqi situation of being constantly under siege and the remote, technological nature of modern warfare. For the performance’s entirety, I sequestered myself in the gallery space, inviting persons...