Cover -- Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of tables and boxes -- Tables -- Boxes -- List of abbreviations -- About the contributors -- Introduction: new imaginings -- Communication and community -- From MySpace to OurSpace -- Notes -- Part 1 Communities, Exiles and Resistance -- 1 The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse -- Place is the thing -- Panoptical temptation -- Reincarnation as networked norm -- Forgiveness not permission -- Culture jammer or parasite? -- I've got you under my skin -- Permaban and punish -- Legibility and responsibility -- Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right -- Notes -- 2 Call it hyper activism: politicising the online Arab public sphere and the quest for authenticity and relevance -- From blogging to YouTube: politicising the internet -- From call-in programs to online comments: participatory culture -- Notes -- 3 What's in a name? Digital resources and resistance at the global periphery -- Resistance and the nation state -- SouthAfrica.com -- NewZealand.com -- Tuvalu and .tv -- .md: who represents Moldova? -- What's in a domain (name)? -- Cautions and conflicts: .tp and Timorese independence -- Notes -- 4 I have seen the future, and it rings -- Mobile phones and social change -- Day-to-day use of mobile phones -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Part 2 Structures for Sharing -- 5 Strangers in the swarm -- The history of file sharing -- Bit Torrent -- Identities in the swarm -- The future -- Notes -- 6 Status (update) anxiety: social networking, Facebook and community -- It's all about me -- Watching the self (being watched) -- Notes -- 7 Becoming Mireila: a virtual ethnography through the eyes of an avatar -- Entry -- Stripping Mireila -- Feeders -- Self -- Notes.

8 Taste is the enemy of creativity: disability, YouTube and a new language1 -- Disability is a social construction -- Lessons from Picasso -- Digital disability -- Notes -- Part 3 Professions, Production, Consumptions -- 9 The sound of a librarian: the politics and potential of podcasting in difficult times -- iPod studies -- Why should librarians use podcasts? -- Questions of quality -- Notes -- 10 The invisible (wo)man -- Introducing Nazlin -- Endings -- Notes -- 11 The impact of the video-equipped DSLR -- The video DSLR -- A community of video cinematographers -- The future -- Notes -- 12 Why media literacy is transformative of the Irish education system: a statement in advocacy -- New literacies -- Managing disadvantage -- Multiliteracy for an Information Age -- Notes -- 13 YouTube Academy -- Doing 'everything' with YouTube -- Broadcasting academics -- Notes -- Part 4 Fandom, Consumption and Community -- 14 Live fast, die young, become immortal -- Prescience -- Mediated grief -- Living digital death -- Notes -- 15 All we hear is Lady-o Gaga: Popular Culture 2.0 -- Music -- Gender and fashion -- Fandom -- Notes -- 16 Copyright and couture: the Comme il Faut experience -- Intellectual property: copyrighting couture -- Online retailers and the long tail of e-commerce -- Fashion and failure -- Comme il Faut couture -- Notes -- 17 When community becomes a commodity -- Digital identity -- Online communities -- Google -- Facebook -- Online dating -- Online games -- Cultivating digital identity and harvesting digital community -- Notes -- Conclusion: white men rule? -- Maturing media -- Notes -- References -- Index.