The Handbook of Internet Studies (eBook)

Robert Burnett is Professor and Research Chair of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. Mia Consalvo is Associate Professor in the School of Media Arts and Studies at Ohio University. Charles Ess is Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. He is also Professor MSO in the Information and Media Studies Department at Aarhus University in Denmark.

Notes on Editors and Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Introduction (Charles Ess and Mia Consalvo).

Part I: Beyond the Great Divides? A Primer on Internet
Histories, Methods, and Ethics.

Introduction to Part I (Charles Ess).

1. Studying the Internet Through the Ages (Barry
Wellman).

2. Web Archiving - Between Past, Present, and Future
(Niels Brügger).

3. New Media, Old Methods - Internet Methodologies and the
Online/Offline Divide (Klaus Bruhn Jensen).

4. The Internet in Everyday Life: Exploring the Tenets and
Contributions of Diverse Approaches (Maria Bakardjieva).

5. Internet Research Ethics: Past, Present, and Future
(Elizabeth A. Buchanan).

Part II: Shaping Daily Life: The Internet and
Society.

Introduction to Part II (Mia Consalvo).

6. Assessing the Internet's Impact on Language (Naomi
S. Baron).

7. Internet Policy (Sandra Braman).

8. Political Discussion Online (Jennifer Stromer-Galley and
Alexis Wichowski).

9. Does the Internet Empower? A Look at the Internet and
International Development (Deborah L. Wheeler).

10. Internet and Health Communication (Lorna Heaton).

11. Internet and Religion (Heidi Campbell).

12. Indigenous Peoples on the Internet (Laurel
Dyson).

13. Queering Internet Studies: Intersections of Gender and
Sexuality (Janne Bromseth and Jenny Sundén).

Part III: Internet and Culture.

Introduction to Part III (Mia Consalvo).

14. Community and the Internet (Lori Kendall).

15. MOOs to MMOs: The Internet and Virtual Worlds (Mia
Consalvo).

16. Internet, Children, and Youth (Sonia
Livingstone).

17. Internet and Games (T. L. Taylor).

18. Social Networks 2.0 (Nancy K. Baym).

19. Newly Mediated Media: Understanding the Changing Internet
Landscape of the Media Industries (P. David Marshall).

20. Online Pornography: Ubiquitous and Effaced (Susanna
Paasonen).

21. Music and the Internet (Robert
Burnett).

22. Why and How Online Sociability Became Part and Parcel of
Teenage Life (Marika Lüders).

Index.

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division
undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty."
(Choice, 1 April 2012)

"Together, the comprehensive and quite thought-provoking
individual essays provide richly insightful perspectives into the
extent to which the internet is shaping and being shaped by human
cultures and societies, and the various ways in which scholars
might consider and approach such processes."
(Digital Journalism, 19 August 2014)





"The editors of the Handbook of Internet Studies are to be
congratulated on creating a state-of-the art collection that
represents and celebrates the diversity of theoretical and
disciplinary approaches marking this brave new field. A new
must-have reference book for Internet Studies." Caroline
Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois

"This indispensable volume reflects the complexity of Internet
studies--indeed, the Internet itself--by bringing together a
diverse set of voices, geographies, disciplines, and arguments. It
is not only an important resource for practitioners, but will also
spark the curiosity of those on the edges of the field, including
humanists, social scientists, and engineers alike."
Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin

"The Handbook of Internet Studies is a comprehensive and
useful volume that will appeal to students, teachers and
researchers. It provides a welcome survey of the still-emerging
field of Internet Studies and can readily serve as a jumping-off
point for further exploration. I highly recommend it to those who
have been following the field since its emergence in the 1990s as
well as to those new to the field." Steve Jones, University of
Illinois at Chicago

"Of all media, the internet holds the most wide-ranging,
deep and complex depiction of contemporary society. If you want to
understand today's society, you need to study the internet.
This handbook is landmark, documenting that internet studies have
now come of age." Niels Ole Finnemann, Aarhus
University, Denmark