Japanese cybercultures

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 10
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 17
A note on language......Page 18
The Internet in Japan......Page 20
Popular culture......Page 36
Individualization, individuality, interiority, and the Internet: Japanese university students and e-mail......Page 38
Deai-kei: Japan's new culture of encounter......Page 53
Cute@keitai.com......Page 69
From subculture to cybersubculture? The Japanese Noise alliance and the Internet......Page 79
Filling in the blanks: lessons from an Internet Blues jam......Page 94
Gender and sexuality......Page 112
Challenging society through the information grid: Japanese women's activism on the Net......Page 114
Cybermasculinities: masculinities and the Internet in Japan......Page 128
~Net~-working on the Web: links between Japanese HIV patients in cyberspace......Page 145
Private acts/public spaces: cruising for gay sex on the Japanese Internet......Page 160
Politics and religion......Page 176
The great equalizer? The Internet and progressive activism in Japan......Page 178
Creating publics and counterpublics on the Internet in Japan......Page 193
Language, representation and power: Burakumin and the Internet......Page 210
Activism and the Internet: Japan's 2001 history-textbook affair......Page 224
Self-representation of two new religions on the Japanese Internet: Jehovah's Witnesses and Seich no Ie......Page 241
Bibliography......Page 254
Index......Page 269