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... spaces to non-users, often extolling the liberatory potential of new technologies and how they might shape and change our individual sense of identity, community, and connection to the ‘real world’ (=-=Rheingold, 1993-=-; Turkle, 1995). As internet access grew more ubiquitous, scholars turned their attention to understanding the ways in which cyberspace was no different than ‘meatspace’, in that it mirrored (and perh...

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...ers, often extolling the liberatory potential of new technologies and how they might shape and change our individual sense of identity, community, and connection to the ‘real world’ (Rheingold, 1993; =-=Turkle, 1995-=-). As internet access grew more ubiquitous, scholars turned their attention to understanding the ways in which cyberspace was no different than ‘meatspace’, in that it mirrored (and perhaps amplified)...

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...ly 1990s, but with a much deeper consideration of both the individual and the institutional—reflecting on the ways in which choices made by technological designers impact individual use of new media (=-=Norman, 2005-=-). Daniel Riha and Anna Maj’s edited collection, Emerging Practices in Cyberculture and Social Networking, continues this tradition. The volume covers a broad number of topics of interest to cybercult...