@book {428,
	title = {Japanese Cybercultures},
	year = {2003},
	publisher = {Routledge},
	organization = {Routledge},
	address = {London \& New York},
	abstract = {Japan is rightly regarded as one of the most technologically advanced countries in the world, yet the development and deployment of Internet technology in Japan has taken a different trajectory compared with Western nations. This is the first book to look at the specific dynamics of Japanese Internet use. It examines the crucial questions: 
* how the Japanese are using the Internet: from the prevalence of access via portable devices, to the fashion culture of mobile phones
* how Japan{\textquoteright}s "cute culture" has colonized cyberspace
* the role of the Internet in different musical subcultures
* how different men{\textquoteright}s and women{\textquoteright}s groups have embraced technology to highlight problems of harassment and bullying
* the social, cultural and political impacts of the Internet on Japanese society
* how marginalized groups in Japanese society - gay men, those living with AIDS, members of new religious groups and Japan{\textquoteright}s hereditary sub-caste, the Burakumin - are challenging the mainstream by using the Internet. 
Examined from a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives, using a broad range of case-studies, this is an exciting and genuinely cutting-edge book which breaks new ground in Japanese studies and will be of value to anyone interested in Japanese culture, the Internet and cyberculture.},
	keywords = {culture, cyber, internet, Japan},
	url = {http://books.google.com/books/about/Japanese_cybercultures.html?id=2McTNWGncZ0C},
	author = {Nanette Gottlieb and Mark McLelland}
}
