Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Where Is the Shaman? -- PART I. CONCEPTUALIZING ELECTRONIC TRIBES -- CHAPTER 1. "A Tribe by Any Other Name . . ." -- CHAPTER 2. Mimetic Kinship: Theorizing Online "Tribalism" -- CHAPTER 3. Electronic Tribes (E-Tribes): Some Theoretical Perspectives and Implications -- CHAPTER 4. Revisiting the Impact of Tribalism on Civil Society: An Investigation of the Potential Benefi ts of Membership in an E-Tribe on Public Discourse -- PART II. SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ELECTRONIC TRIBALISM -- CHAPTER 5. Theorizing the E-Tribe on MySpace.com -- CHAPTER 6. Don't Date, Craftsterbate: Dialogue and Resistance on craftster.org -- CHAPTER 7. Guild Life in the World of Warcraft: Online Gaming Tribalism -- CHAPTER 8. At the Electronic Evergreen: A Computer-Mediated Ethnography of Tribalism in a Newsgroup from Montserrat and Afar -- PART III. EMERGING ELECTRONIC TRIBAL CULTURES -- CHAPTER 9. "Like a neighborhood of sisters": Can Culture Be Formed Electronically? -- CHAPTER 10. Gerald M. Phillips as Electronic Tribal Chief: Socioforming Cyberspace -- CHAPTER 11. Digital Dreamtime, Sonic Talismans: Music Downloading and the Tribal Landscape -- CHAPTER 12. Magic, Myth, and Mayhem: Tribalization in the Digital Age -- PART IV. CYBERCRIME AND COUNTERCULTURE AMONG ELECTRONIC TRIBES -- CHAPTER 13. Mundanes at the Gate . . . and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online -- CHAPTER 14. Brotherhood of Blood: Aryan Tribalism and Skinhead Cybercrews -- CHAPTER 15. Radical Tribes at Warre: Primitivists on the Net -- CHAPTER 16. A "Tribe" Migrates Crime to Cyberspace: Nigerian Igbos in 419 E-Mail Scams -- About the Contributors -- Index.