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POPULAR CULTURE

Cyberbullies, Debates for FORTHCOMING
Cyberactivists, the Digital Age Women in Sports

Cyberpredators The Good, the Bad, and the Breaking Barriers,
Film, TV, and Ugly of Our Online World Facing Obstacles
Internet Stereotypes 2 VOLUMES 2 VOLUMES
DANIELLE SARVER COOMBS AND
LAUREN ROSEWARNE SIMON COLLISTER, EDITORS ADRIENNE N. MILNER AND
JOMILLS HENRY BRADDOCK II,
EDITORS

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Written by an expert in media, popular By evaluating the Internet’s impact on women’s experiences in sports within a
culture, gender, and sexuality, this key cultural issues of the day, this book patriarchal society and highlight areas
book surveys the common archetypes provides a comprehensive overview of for improvement.
of Internet users—from geeks, nerds, the seismic technological and cultural
and gamers to hackers, scammers, and shifts the Internet has created in FEATURES
predators—and assesses what these contemporary society. • Includes contributions from a wide
stereotypes reveal about our culture’s FEATURES variety of athletes and scholars from
attitudes regarding gender, technology, • Includes essays on overarching around the world and comprises
content edited by two editors of
intimacy, and identity. themes and issues that are different sexes and races
essential to understanding Internet
FEATURES • Relates topics of sexism, gender
culture, including privacy, celebrity,
• Provides exhaustively researched superficiality, and the personal toll expectations, and discrimination to key
and richly detailed information online living can have on users issues within the larger social structure
about the interplay between media
representations of Internet users and
gender, politics, technology, and society DANIELLE SARVER COOMBS, PhD, is ADRIENNE N. MILNER, PhD, is
lecturer of global public health at Barts
that is fascinating and fun to read associate director in the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication and the London School of Medicine
at Kent State University. and Dentistry, Queen Mary University
of London.
LAUREN ROSEWARNE, PhD, is a SIMON COLLISTER is senior lecturer
senior lecturer at the University of in the School of Media at London JOMILLS HENRY BRADDOCK II,
Melbourne. College of Communication, University PhD, is professor of sociology at the
of the Arts, London. University of Miami.
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