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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION Where Is the Shaman? -- PART I CONCEPTUALIZING ELECTRONIC TRIBES -- CHAPTER 1 "A Tribe by Any Other Name . . ." -- CHAPTER 2 Mimetic Kinship: Theorizing Online "Tribalism" -- CHAPTER 3 Electronic Tribes (E-Tribes): Some Theoretical Perspectives and Implications -- CHAPTER 4 Revisiting the Impact of Tribalism on Civil Society: An Investigation of the Potential Benefits of Membership in an E-Tribe on Public Discourse -- PART II SOCIAL CONSEQUENCES OF ELECTRONIC TRIBALISM -- CHAPTER 5 Theorizing the E-Tribe on MySpace.com -- CHAPTER 6 Don't Date, Craftsterbate: Dialogue and Resistance on craftster.org -- CHAPTER 7 Guild Life in the World of Warcraft: Online Gaming Tribalism -- CHAPTER 8 At the Electronic Evergreen: A Computer-Mediated Ethnography of Tribalism in a Newsgroup from Montserrat and Afar -- PART III EMERGING ELECTRONIC TRIBAL CULTURES -- CHAPTER 9 "Like a neighborhood of sisters": Can Culture Be Formed Electronically? -- CHAPTER 10 Gerald M. Phillips as Electronic Tribal Chief: Socioforming Cyberspace -- CHAPTER 11 Digital Dreamtime, Sonic Talismans: Music Downloading and the Tribal Landscape -- CHAPTER 12 Magic, Myth, and Mayhem: Tribalization in the Digital Age -- PART IV CYBERCRIME AND COUNTERCULTURE AMONG ELECTRONIC TRIBES -- CHAPTER 13 Mundanes at the Gate . . . and Perverts Within: Managing Internal and External Threats to Community Online -- CHAPTER 14 Brotherhood of Blood: Aryan Tribalism and Skinhead Cybercrews -- CHAPTER 15 Radical Tribes at Warre: Primitivists on the Net -- CHAPTER 16 A "Tribe" Migrates Crime to Cyberspace: Nigerian Igbos in 419 E-Mail Scams -- About the Contributors -- Index