" For many years now, Herman Gray has crafted brilliant cultural criticism that has illumined
and interrogated the complex dimensions of black culture. In Cultural Moves, Gray sends his …

This article investigates the social, technical, and legal affiliations among “geeks”(hackers,
lawyers, activists, and IT entrepreneurs) on the Internet. The mode of association specific to …

CONSIDER THE ROLE OF THE INTERNET in the life of one of my students. She is an
undergraduate at a large midwestern research university. She lives in the dormitories and …

Social problems theory has yet to fully address the impact that new communication
technologies are having on the claims-making process. This article examines the …

In this article we engage the nature and role of the Internet in ethnographic research and
reflect on how ethnographic methodologies may be adapted when researching digital forms …

The rise and fall of the ringtone industry and its effect on mobile entertainment, music,
television, film, and politics. A decade ago, the customizable ringtone was ubiquitous …

Editors Marsha Kinder and Tara McPherson present an authoritative collection of essays on
the continuing debates over medium specificity and the politics of the digital arts. Comparing …

Introduction--Club drugs, online communities, and harm reduction websites on the
Internet/Edward Murguía, Melissa Tackett-Gibson & Rachel Willard--The body or the body …

This essay argues that Don DeLillo's 2003 novel Cosmopolis presents a critique of the world
of cyber capital that invokes and is framed by the long-standing Euro-American republican …

Rhetorics for Community Action: Public Writing and Writing Publics, by Phyllis Mentzell
Ryder, offers theory and pedagogy to introduce public writing as a complex political and …