What is internet studies? / Charles Ess, Mia Consalvo, 1
I. BEYOND THE GREAT DIVIDES? A PRIMER ON INTERNET HISTORIES, METHODS, AND ETHICS
Introduction / Charles Ess, 11
1 Studying the internet through the ages / Barry Wellman, 17
2 Web archiving: between past, present, and future / Niels Brugger, 24
3 New media, old methods: Internet methodologies and the online/offline divide / Klaus Bruhn Jensen, 43
4 The internet in everyday life: exploring the tenets and contributions of diverse approaches / Maria Bakardjieva, 59
5 Internet research ethics: past, present, and future / Elizabeth A Buchanan, 83
II. SHAPING DAILY LIFE: THE INTERNET AND SOCIETY
Introduction / Mia Consalvo, 111
6 Assessing the internet's impact on language / Naomi S. Baron, 117
7 Internet policy / Sandra Braman, 137
8 Political discussion online / Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Alexis Wichowski, 168
9 Does the internet empower? a look at the internet and international development / Deborah L Wheeler, 188
10 Internet and health communication / Lorna Heaton, 212
11 Internet and religion / Heidi Campbell, 232
12 Indigenous peoples on the internet / Laurel Dyson, 251
13 Queering internet studies: intersections of gender and sexuality / Janne Bromseth, Jenny Sundén, 270
III. INTERNET AND CULTURE
Introduction / Mia Consalvo, 303
14 Community and the internet / Lori Kendall, 309
15 MOOs to MMOs: the internet and virtual worlds / Mia Consalvo, 326
16 Internet, children, and youth / Sonia Livingstone, 348
17 Internet and games / T. L. Taylor, 369
18 Social networks 2.0 / Nancy K Baym, 384
19 Newly mediated media: understanding the changing internet landscape of the media industries / P. David Marshall, 406
20 Online pornography: ubiquitous and effaced / Susanna Paasonen, 424
21 Music and the internet / Steve Jones, 440
22 Why and how online sociability became part and parcel of teenage life / Marika Lüders, 452