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New Media & Society
Volume 9(4), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Royse, Pam, Lee, Joon, Undrahbuyan, Baasanjav, Hopson, Mark, and Consalvo, Mia Women and games: Technologies of the gendered self 555-576
 
  This study examines how individual differences in the consumption of computer games intersect with gender and how games and gender mutually constitute each other 
 
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personality and psychology
technologies
gender
cognition
computer
 
 
Magnet, Shoshana Feminist sexualities, race and the internet: An investigation of suicidegirls.com 577-602
 
  This article analyzes representations of feminism and sexuality on Suicide Girls (www.suicidegirls.com), a commercial site which features the online journals, profiles and nude photographs of young, heavily tattooed, punk women 
 
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gender
computer
technologies
sexuality
visualization
race and ethnicity
 
 
Kaare, Birgit Hertzberg, Brandtzaeg, Petter Bae, Heim, Jan, and Endestad, Tor In the borderland between family orientation and peer culture: The use of communication technologies among Norwegian tweens 603-624
 
  This article explores the use of mediated communication among Norwegian children aged between 10 and 12 years 
 
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technologies
children
computer
interpersonal
 
 
Hodkinson, Paul Interactive online journals and individualization 625-650
 
  Suggestions that the internet has facilitated existing trends towards the increasing disconnection of individuals from substantive communities have been balanced by a variety of empirical case studies demonstrating significant communal features on some online discussion forums 
 
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computer
technologies
interpersonal
 
 
Van, Selm, Martine, and Peeters, Allerd Additional communication channels in Dutch television genres 651-669
 
  This study examined the way in which television genres in the Netherlands make use of additional communication channels in terms of interactivity and genre modification and whether the availability of additional communication channels in genres corresponds to audience age 
 
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broadcasting and media
television
Europe
advertising
international development
 
 
Livingstone, Sonia, and Helsper, Ellen Gradations in digital inclusion: Children, young people and the digital divide 671-696
 
  Little academic and policy attention has addressed the `digital divide' among children and young people 
 
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demographics
children
literacy
computer
technologies
 
 
Hoctor, Elizabeth Michelle Emerging virtual nations: promise and potential 697-705
 
  As we get closer to the end of the first decade of the 21st century, much of the technological utopianism regarding the positive potential of the internet to revitalize the democratic process has faded in the Western World 
 
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computer
technologies
broadcasting and media
international development