Contents -- Introduction - Hajo Greif, Larissa Hjorth, Amparo Lasén & Claire Lobet-Maris 9 -- Part I: Paradigms of Participation -- Online Participation and the New Media - Leopoldina Fortunati 19 -- From Information to Broadband Society, Whence and Whither? - Hajo Greif & Matthias Werner 35 -- Participatory Frameworks: Re-tracing Participation in the Theoretical Node Technology/Society - Giuseppina Pellegrino 49 -- Listening, not Lurking: The Neglected Form of Participation - Kate Crawford 63 -- Part II: Emotions and Play -- Attitudes towards Mobile Phones: A Cross-Cultural Comparison - Naomi S. Baron 77 -- Emotions and the Mobile Phone - Jane Vincent 95 -- Playing the Waiting Game: Complicating Notions of (Tele)presence and Gendered Distraction in Casual Mobile Gaming - Larissa Hjorth & Ingrid Richardson 111 -- Imagined Performativity: The Great Virtue of Cyberspace in Contemporary Chinese Workers' Social Lives - Chung Tai Cheng 127 -- Part III: Redefining Political Participation -- 'An Original Protest, at Least.' Mediality and Participation - Amparo Lasén & Iñaki Martínez de Albeniz 141 -- The Less Expected: An Exploration of the Social and Political Activities on the Internet in China - Boxu Yang, Yuan Le & Shanshan An 159 -- Part IV: Social Media and Media Practices -- The Facebook Family: Information and Communication Technology Redrafting the Rules of Participation in Family Life - Brian Simpson 181 -- The Frenzy of Digital Photography: A Biopolitical Assessment - Lieve Gies 195 -- Hyperlinked Avatars: Negotiating Identities and Social Relations within Social Networking Sites - Romina Cachia & Alexandra Haché 211 -- Tracing the Policy Challenges of the Digital Dividend - Lilia Raycheva 229 -- About the Authors 245.