Rikke Andreassen is Professor (MSO) of Communication in the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University, Denmark. She is the author of Human Exhibitions: Race, Gender and Sexuality in Ethnic Displays and the co-editor of Affectivity and Race: Studies from Nordic Contexts and Mediated Intimacies: Connectivities, Relationalities and Proximities.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: motherhood and the Web 2.0

2. Creating family

3. The missing father

4. Race and reproduction

5. Community and new scripts of family

6. Conclusion: expansion within limits

References

Index

Illustrating the fascinating intersections of social media and new kinship, this book presents a study of the increasing numbers of families using the world's largest sperm bank and the development of new extended families involving large numbers of donor siblings.