New issue: Online lives

 We are happy to announce the online publication of the third issue of Compaso – Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology. This issue provides a rich discussion of online lives through research articles and book reviews that document them from a wide-range of perspectives and cultural contexts. 

 You are kindly invited to read and comment on the articles, which are available at the following addresses:

 

Issue 2 / 2010: Online lives

Volume 1, Number 2, October 2010

 

Invited article

Oana Mateescu / Introduction: Life in the Web 

 

Research articles

Laura Arosio / Personal documents on the Internet: what’s new and what’s old

Smadar Ben-Asher and Udi Lebel / Social structure vs. self rehabilitation: IDF widows forming an intimate relationship in the sociopolitical discourse

Greg Bowe B. A. Mod / Reading romance: the impact Facebook rituals can have on a romantic relationship

Ioana Cărtărescu / Utility of online communities – Ways one can benefit from one’s online life

Iulia Cornigeanu / The clones: A new phenomenon in the literary environment

Ioana Florea / Narrative online and offline spaces. Field notes from the becoming of an anthropologist

Gevisa la Rocca / Follow me on academia.edu: Analysis of a distraction online and of its consequences on daily life

Laura Nistor / The role of the Internet in shaping environmental concern. A focus on post-communist Europe

Alexandra Zontea / Advertising identities: virtual galleries as places of identity

 

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Rossalina Latcheva / Nationalism versus patriotism, or the floating border? National identification and ethnic exclusion in post-communist Bulgaria

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Book Reviews

Simona Ciotlăuș / Ethnography put to good use: researching the virtually human. Review of the book: Tom Boellstorff, “Coming of age in Second Life. An anthropologist explores Second Life”

Monica Costache / Eric Qualman, “Socialnomics: how social media transforms the way we live and do business”

Andra Letiția Jacob / Pietro Cingolani, “Romeni d’Italia. Migrazioni, vita quotidiana e legami transnazionali”