Hybrid Media Culture is an interdisciplinary exploration of how the online and the offline interact in present-day culture. This edited collection investigates the effects of the internet and digital culture on perceptions and uses of identities, bodies and localities.

Simon Lindgren is Professor of Sociology at Umeå University, Sweden. He researches digital culture with a focus on social connections, social organization and social movements. His publications cover themes like hacktivism, digital piracy, subcultural creativity and learning, popular culture and visual politics. Simon is the author of New Noise: A Cultural Sociology of Digital Disruption (2013).

1. Hybrid Media Culture: An Introduction 2. Hybrid Embodiment: Doing Respectable Bodies on YouTube 3. Visibility and Surveillance in a Hybrid Media Culture 4. The Hybrid Emergence of Sámi Expressive Culture 5. Hybrid Political Activism and the Online/Offline Divide 6. The Hybrid Discourse of Digital Piracy 7. Social Support Online: Between Closeness and Anonymity 8. Hybrid Churches: Transcending the Physical, Virtual and Sacred 9. Towards a Heterotopology: Unlayering the Reality of Hybrid Media Culture