Hello, my book on Internet and computer
spectatorship–The Body and the Screen: Theories of
Internet Spectatorship–was just published by MIT
Press. I thought that it would be of interest to other
Rhizome readers because it has chapters on such things
as the interface, net art, digital imaging, and how
avatar production is conceptualized as painting. It
also has a brief consideration of the debates that
occurred around Rhizome membership. I am including
full publication details and the table of contents
below. I would be happy to answer any questions.

All my best,
Michele

White, Michele. The Body and the Screen: Theories of
Internet Spectatorship. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press,
2006. ISBN 0-262-23249-9

The Body, the Screen, and Representations: An
Introduction to Theories of Internet Spectatorship

1. Making Internet and Computer Spectators
Introduction
Rendering Liveness, Materiality, and Space
Notions of the Empowered User
Addressing the Spectator
Stabilizing Identity
Erasing the Interface
Conclusion: Active Users by Design

2. Visual Pleasure through Textual Passages: Gazing in
Multi-user Object-oriented Settings (MOOs)
Introduction
MOOs
The Look and the Gaze
Character Creation and Attributes in MOOs
The Look and the Gaze in MOOs
Gendered Gazing in MOOs
Graphical MOOs
Conclusion: Between Multiple and Coherent Identity

3. Too Close to See, Too Intimate a Screen: Men,
Women, and Webcams
Introduction
Feminism and Spectatorship
Critical and Journalistic Considerations of Webcams
Webcams
Women and Webcams
Regulating the Spectator
Women Webcam Operators and Authority
Visibility and Webcams
Making Texts Real
Some Problems with Webcam Viewing
Just a Guy
Conclusion: The Politics of Being Seen

4. The Aesthetic of Failure: Confusing Spectators with
Net Art Gone Wrong
Introduction
Aesthetics and Net Art
Net Art
An Aesthetic of Failure
Jodi
Peter Luining
Michael Samyn
Conclusion: The Limits of Failure and Repetition

5. Can You Read Me? Setting-specific Meaning in
Virtual Places (VP)
Introduction
Virtual Places
Avatars
Painters and Avatar Galleries
Owning Texts
Criteria for Originality
Theories of Internet Authorship
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Avatar
Making Differences in Virtual Places
Conclusion: Authorship in Other Internet Settings

6. This Is Not Photography, This Is Not a Cohesive
View: Computer-facilitated Imaging and Fragmented
Spectatorship
Introduction
Making the Digital Imaging Spectator
Photography
Digital or Post-photography
The Scanner as Camera
Carol Selter's Animalia and Punctum
Susan Silton's Self Portraits and Images of the
Partial Self
Ken Gonzales-Day's Skin Series and the Cut
The New Media Grid
Conclusion: The Morphed Spectator

Afterword
The Flat and the Fold: A Consideration of Embodied
Spectatorship
Introduction
Carol Selter, Susan Silton, Ken Gonzales-Day, and the
Fold
The Body Folded and Evacuated
Hierarchy and Control
The Spectator in Pain
The Fat and the Fold
Men and the Weight Loss "Challenge"
Erotic Folding
Conclusion: A Technology of Waste