Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
ISSN 2068 – 0317
Special issue: Online lives
Volume 1, Number 2, October 2010
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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”
[Link to Publisher's presentation]
Monica Costache / Eric Qualman, “Socialnomics: how social media transforms the way we live and do business”
[Link to book page]
Andra Letiția Jacob / Pietro Cingolani, “Romeni d’Italia. Migrazioni, vita quotidiana e legami transnazionali”