Review Article: Complexities of networked media within the transitive spheres of globalization: Megan Boler (ed.), Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2008, 464 pp. ISBN 9 - 7802 - 6202 - 6420, $43.00 (hbk) Adrienne Russell and Nabil Echchaibi (eds), International Blogging: Identity, Politics, and Networked Publics. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. viii + 205 pp. ISBN 978 - 1433 - 10233 - 2, $32.95 (pbk).