Scholars from North America, Israel, Singapore, and Europe contribute eight chapters on the relationship between new social media and social interaction. They examine opportunities for social interaction made possible by new social media and the complex human relationships that are a result; the features of Facebook and sociability; human interaction in Second Life; the relationships between social forms and technological formats in terms of the role of social media in the Arab Spring; the social construction of players' roles in the online gaming environment, focusing on World of Warcraft; the actions of paid sex workers in Second Life; how the technological formats of the internet enable the construction of sexuality, sexual fantasies, and sexual behavior in gay men; and the narrative inscriptions left on the “Apology Wall” written by community members after the 2011 Vancouver Stanley Cup Riot. Distributed in North America by Turpin Distribution. Annotation ©2014 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
