The Boundaries of Belonging makes significant contributions empirically and theoretically. Certainly, Jaworsky is the first to document the massive online political discourse currently devoted to American immigration, for and against. The Internet is central to contemporary cultural-political communication, and this pioneering work demonstrates how to study its agendasetting power. Jaworsky’s contributions go beyond merely documenting this virtual contestation. Through massive exposure and creative interpretive readings, she provides a sophisticated hermeneutical reconstruction of this contest’s central organizing themes: family, citizenship, and values