Description
Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we communicate and experience our world as we have moved from the industrial era into the age of digital media.
Trade Review“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)
Table of ContentsNotes on Editors and Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction: What is “Internet Studies”? 1
Charles Ess and Mia Consalvo
Part I Beyond the Great Divides? A Primer on Internet Histories, Methods, and Ethics 9
Introduction to Part I 11
Charles Ess
1 Studying the Internet Through the Ages 17
Barry Wellman
2 Web Archiving – Between Past, Present, and Future 24
Niels Brügger
3 New Media, Old Methods – Internet Methodologies and the Online/Offline Divide 43
Klaus Bruhn Jensen
4 The Internet in Everyday Life: Exploring the Tenets and Contributions of Diverse Approaches 59
Maria Bakardjieva
5 Internet Research Ethics: Past, Present, and Future 83
Elizabeth A. Buchanan
Part II Shaping Daily Life: The Internet and Society 109
Introduction to Part II 111
Mia Consalvo
6 Assessing the Internet’s Impact on Language 117
Naomi S. Baron
7 Internet Policy 137
Sandra Braman
8 Political Discussion Online 168
Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Alexis Wichowski
9 Does the Internet Empower? A Look at the Internet and International Development 188
Deborah L. Wheeler
10 Internet and Health Communication 212
Lorna Heaton
11 Internet and Religion 232
Heidi Campbell
12 Indigenous Peoples on the Internet 251
Laurel Dyson
13 Queering Internet Studies: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality 270
Janne Bromseth and Jenny Sundén
Introduction to Part III 303
Mia Consalvo
14 Community and the Internet 309
Lori Kendall
15 MOOs to MMOs: The Internet and Virtual Worlds 326
Mia Consalvo
16 Internet, Children, and Youth 348
Sonia Livingstone
17 Internet and Games 369
T. L. Taylor
18 Social Networks 2.0 384
Nancy K. Baym
19 Newly Mediated Media: Understanding the Changing Internet Landscape of the Media Industries 406
P. David Marshall
20 Online Pornography: Ubiquitous and Effaced 424
Susanna Paasonen
21 Music and the Internet 440
Steve Jones
22 Why and How Online Sociability Became Part and Parcel of Teenage Life 452
Marika Lüders
Index 470
