Electronic tribes: the virtual worlds of geeks, gamers, shamans, and scammers

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Foreword, Ronald E. Rice Acknowledgments Introduction: Where Is the Shaman? Jim ParkerPart I: Conceptualizing Electronic Tribes1. by Any Other Name ... , Tyrone L. Adams and Stephen A. Smith 2. Mimetic Kinship: Theorizing Online Veronica M. Davidov and Barbara Andersen 3. Electronic Tribes (E-Tribes): Some Theoretical Perspectives and Implications, Bolanle Olaniran 4. Revisiting the Impact of Tribalism on Civil Society: An Investigation of the Potential Benefits of Membership in an E-Tribe on Public Discourse, Christina StanderferPart II: Social Consequences of Electronic Tribalism5. Theorizing the E-Tribe on MySpace.com, David R. Dewberry 6. Don't Date, Craftsterbate: Dialogue and Resistance on craftster.org, Terri L. Russ 7. Guild Life in the World of Warcraft: Online Gaming Tribalism, Thomas Brignall III 8. At the Electronic Evergreen: A Computer-Mediated Ethnography of Tribalism in a Newsgroup from Montserrat and Afar, Jonathan SkinnerPart III: Emerging Electronic Tribal Cultures9. Like a neighborhood of sisters: Can Culture Be Formed Electronically? Deborah Clark Vance 10. Gerald M. Phillips as Electronic Tribal Chief: Socioforming Cyberspace, Ann Rosenthal 11. Digital Dreamtime, Sonic Talismans: Music Downloading and the Tribal Landscape, Michael C. Zalot 12. Magic, Myth, and Mayhem: Tribalization in the Digital Age, Leonie NaughtonPart IV: Cybercrime and Counterculture among Electronic Tribes13. Mundanes at the Gate ... and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online, Steve Abrams and Smaragd Grun 14. Brotherhood of Blood: Aryan Tribalism and Skinhead Cybercrews, Jody M. Roy 15. Radical Tribes at Warre: Primitivists on the Net, Mathieu O'Neil 16. A Tribe Migrates Crime to Cyberspace: Nigerian Igbos in 419 E-Mail Scams, Farooq A. Kperogi and Sandra DuheAbout the Contributors