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Volume 1: The Good
Copyright
Contents
Introducing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Our Online World
PART I ACCESSIBILITY
1. New Audiences, New Markets: Accessing Music, Movies, Art, and Writing at Your Leisure
2. The Positive Side of Social Media: Encouraging Developments from Sport
3. Reaching the World with One Song and a Few Mouse Clicks
4. Narcissism or Self-Actualization? An Evaluation of “Selfies” as a Communication Tool
5. Everyday Expertise: Instructional Videos on YouTube
6. Online Education, Massive Open Online Courses, and the Accessibility of Higher Education
PART II DEMOCRATIZATION
7. Leaks, Whistle-Blowers, and Radical Transparency: Government Accountability in the Internet Age
8. Rethinking Digital Democracy in a Time of Crisis: The Case of Spain
9. Will the Revolution Be Tweeted? Activism, Politics, and the Internet
10. You Say You Want a Revolution? The Internet’s Impact on Political Discussion, Activism, and Societal Transformation
11. Ground-Up Expert: Everyday People and Blogs
12. Self-Promotion for All! Content Creation and Personal Branding in the Digital Age
13. The Rise of Journalism Accountability
PART III COMMUNITY AND GLOBALIZATION
14. Social Media Mechanisms: A Change Agent
15. Habermas in the African E-Village: Deliberative Practices of Diasporan Nigerians on the Internet
16. When Bad Timing Is Actually Good: Reconceptualizing Response Delays
17. In Defense of “Slacktivism”: How KONY 2012 Got the Whole World to Watch
18. Public Health’s Courtship with the Internet: Slow but Steady
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
Volume 2: The Bad and the Ugly
Copyright
Contents
Introducing the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Our Online World
PART I ACCESSIBILITY
1. Searching for the Schoolhouse Gate in Cyberspace
2. Internet Filters in Schools: More than Simply Annoying to Students
3. Bring the Hate: Problematic Internet Use from Fans Toward Athletes
4. Uploading Ideology: Reading Egyptian Social Capital Using Facebook Lenses
PART II DEMOCRATIZATION
5. Are All Sources Really Equal? Credibility and the News, or the Shift from the Age of Deference to the Age of Reference
6. The Boundaries of Digital Dissent: Assessing the War on Hacktivism
7. “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot”: Social Media As a Site of Government (Dis)Trust
8. Trial by Social Media: How Misleading Media and Ideological Protests Led to Disastrous Results in The State of Florida v. George Zimmerman
9. The Digital Migration of Anti-Immigration Rhetoric: Anxiety, Addressivity, and Networked Public Culture
PART III COMMUNITY AND GLOBALIZATION
10. Participation Fetishism in the Digital Age
11. “Lose a Stone or Two Before You Start Dating”: Power and the Construction of Bodies in Online Dating
12. Digital Deception: Online Dating, Identity Development, and Misrepresentation
13. For Love or Money: Exploring Personal Matrimony Ads, Sugar Web Sites, and Catfishing through Social Exchange Theory
14. “Vomitorium of Venom”: Framing Culpable Youth, Bewildered Adults, and the Death of Amanda Todd
15. Finding Fascism in the Comments Section: Online Responses to Viral Videos of the Transportation Security Administration
Index
About the Editors and Contributors
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