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.

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

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