Sociotechnical Systems
Books
An examination of young people’s everyday new media practices—including video-game playing, text-messaging, digital media production, and social media use.
From Wal-Mart drag parties to renegade Homemaker’s Clubs, Out in the Country offers an unprecedented contemporary account of the lives of today’s rural queer youth.
Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method takes students into the minds of top internet researchers as they discuss how they have worked through critical challenges as they research online social environments. Good research choices are not random but are deliberate, studied,…
How the shift toward “technical copy protection” in the battle over digital copyright depended on changing political and commercial alignments that profoundly shaped the future of cultural expression in a digital age.
Tune In, Log On is an ethnographic study of an Internet soap opera fan group. Bridging the fields of computer-mediated communication and audience studies, the book shows how verbal and nonverbal communicative practices create collaborative interpretations and criticism, group humor,…
In Your Face: Stories from the Lives of Queer Youth is a groundbreaking and informative collection of real-life accounts that describe and express the hardships and triumphs of lesbian, gay, and bisexual teens.