Japanese Cybercultures

Front Cover
Nanette Gottlieb, Mark McLelland
Routledge, 2003 M08 29 - 272 pages
Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use.

It examines the crucial questions:
* how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the prevalence of access via portable devices, to the fashion culture of mobile phones
* how Japan's "cute culture" has colonized cyberspace
* the role of the Internet in different musical subcultures
* how different men's and women's groups have embraced technology to highlight problems of harassment and bullying
* the social, cultural and political impacts of the Internet on Japanese society
* how marginalized groups in Japanese society - gay men, those living with AIDS, members of new religious groups and Japan's hereditary sub-caste, the Burakumin - are challenging the mainstream by using the Internet.

Examined from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, using a broad range of case-studies, this is an exciting and genuinely cutting-edge book which breaks new ground in Japanese studies and will be of value to anyone interested in Japanese culture, the Internet and cyberculture.
 

Contents

V
1
VI
17
VII
19
VIII
34
IX
50
X
60
XI
75
XII
93
XVI
141
XVII
157
XVIII
159
XIX
174
XX
191
XXI
205
XXII
222
XXIII
235

XIII
95
XIV
109
XV
126

Other editions - View all

Common terms and phrases

About the author (2003)

Nanette Gottlieb, Mark McLelland

Bibliographic information