During the wave of uprisings that swept over the Middle East in the first months of 2011,
Facebook was identified as being instrumental to the success of the protesters (Giglio …

Conflicting parties worldwide increasingly use the Internet in a strategic way, and struggles
carried out on a local level achieve a new dimension. This new kind of medialization results …

Hine's (2000) notion of cyberspace as both culture and cultural artifact (Hine, 2000; Bell,
2001) is a useful starting point for thinking about cultures and communities in cyberspace …

This paper investigates the idea that governance has changed in the contemporary world so
that there is no longer, if there ever was, simply a dominant power, or set of powers, which …

Whatever media is employed, communication is not simply about the transfer or exchange of
information; all communication involves context, interpretation, and error. Context often …

This article presents a sketch for a theory of the rhetorics involved in categorisation and the
creation of culture in online communities. Persuasion, or shaping perceptions of the world, is …

Living online, for these Western, English-speaking subjects, is embedded within relations
that currently appear to be paradoxical, ambiguous, or contradictory. Sometimes these …

The study of gendered interaction online grows out of studies of gendered interaction off-line
and will probably be found to be a cultural variable changing with off-line gender behaviour …

Currently, there are over 4 billion users connected to the internet. This number represents a
53 per cent penetration rate of the world's population and is expected to increase, based on …

This issue of the Transforming Cultures eJournal concludes the publications arising from an
Australian Research Council grant exploring the effects of gender online. I take this …