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Contents Foreword, Ronald E. Rice vii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction: Where Is the Shaman? Jim Parker 1 PART I. Conceptualizing Electronic Tribes 1. “A Tribe by Any Other Name . . .” 11 tyrone l. adams and stephen a. smith 2. Mimetic Kinship: Theorizing Online “Tribalism” 21 Veronica M. Davidov and Barbara Andersen 3. Electronic Tribes (E-Tribes): Some Theoretical Perspectives and Implications 36 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 58 Christina Standerfer PART II. Social Consequences of Electronic Tribalism 5. Theorizing the E-Tribe on MySpace.com 79 David R. Dewberry 6. Don’t Date, Craftsterbate: Dialogue and Resistance on craftster.org 96 Terri L. Russ Contents vi 7. Guild Life in the World of Warcraft: Online Gaming Tribalism 110 Thomas Brignall III 8. At the Electronic Evergreen: A Computer-Mediated Ethnography of Tribalism in a Newsgroup from Montserrat and Afar 124 Jonathan Skinner PART III. Emerging Electronic Tribal Cultures 9. “Like a neighborhood of sisters”: Can Culture Be Formed Electronically? 143 Deborah Clark Vance 10. Gerald M. Phillips as Electronic Tribal Chief: Socioforming Cyberspace 159 Ann Rosenthal 11. Digital Dreamtime, Sonic Talismans: Music Downloading and the Tribal Landscape 177 Michael C. Zalot 12. Magic, Myth, and Mayhem: Tribalization in the Digital Age 191 Leonie Naughton PART IV. Cybercrime and Counterculture among Electronic Tribes 13. Mundanes at the Gate . . . and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online 207 Steve Abrams and Smaragd Grün 14. Brotherhood of Blood: Aryan Tribalism and Skinhead Cybercrews 229 Jody M. Roy 15. Radical Tribes at Warre: Primitivists on the Net 251 Mathieu O’Neil 16. A “Tribe” Migrates Crime to Cyberspace: Nigerian Igbos in 419 E-Mail Scams 269 Farooq A. Kperogi and Sandra Duhé About the Contributors 289 Index 295 ...

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