Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0
After Avatars, Trolls and Puppets

Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications from daily life to build relationships beyond geographical locality and family links.

Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications from daily life to build relationships beyond geographical locality and family links. Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0 provides detailed analyses of how technology realigns the boundaries between connection, consciousness and community. This book reveals that alongside every engaged, nurturing and supportive group are those who are excluded, marginalised, ridiculed, or forgotten. It explores the argument that community is not an inevitable result of communication. Following an introduction from the Editor, the book is then divided into four sections exploring communities and resistance, structures of sharing, professional communication and fandom and consumption. Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0 combines ethnographic methods and professional expertise to open new spaces for thinking about language, identity, and social connections.

Introduction: New imaginings. Part 1 Communities, exiles and resistance: The inevitable exile: A missing link in online community discourse
Call it hyper activism: politicising the online Arab public sphere and the quest for authenticity and relevance
What's in a name? Digital resources and resistance at the global periphery
I have seen the future, and it rings. Part 2 Structures for sharing
Strangers in the swarm
Status (update) anxiety: social networking, Facebook and community
Becoming Mireila: A virtual ethnography through the eyes of an avatar
Taste is the enemy of creativity: Disability, YouTube and a new. Part 3 Professions, production, consumptions: The sound of a librarian: the politics and potential of podcasting in difficult times
The invisible (wo)man
The impact of the video-equipped DSLR
Why media literacy is transformative of the Irish education system: a statement in advocacy
YouTube Academy. Part 4 Fandom, consumption and community: Live fast, die young, become immortal
All we hear is Lady-o Gaga: Popular Culture 2.0
Copyright and couture: the Comme il Faut experience
When community becomes a commodity
Conclusion: white men rule?