The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies
Oxford: Oxford University Press (2014), xx, 607 pp.
Contains figures, tables, acronyms pp. xiv-xvii, index
Series: Oxford Handbooks in Business and Management
Signature commbox: 70-General-E 2014
"Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a resource in this area, bringing together scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the future. The book aims to focus on Internet Studies as an emerging field, each chapter seeking to provide a synthesis and critical assessment of the research in a particular area. Topics covered include social perspectives on the technology of the Internet; the Internet's role in everyday life and work; implications for communication, power, and influence; and the governance and regulation of the Internet. The book aims not only to help to strengthen research on the key questions, but also to shape research, policy, and practice across many disciplines that are finding the Internet and its political, economic, cultural, and other societal implications increasingly central to their own key areas of inquiry." (Publisher description)
1 Internet studies: the foundations of a transformative field / William H. Dutton, 1
I. PERSPECTIVES ON THE INTERNET AND WEB AS OBJECTS OF STUDY
2 The prehistory of the Internet and its traces in the present / Martin C. J. Elton and John Carey, 27
3 Web science / Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall, 48
4 Society on the Web / Mike Thelwall, 69
5 The Internet as infrastructure / Christian Sandvig, 86
II. LIVING IN A NETWORK SOCIETY
6 Network societies and Internet studies / Jack Linchuan Qiu, 109
7 Digital inequality / Eszter Hargittai and Yuli Patrick Hsieh, 129
8 Sociality through social network sites / Nicole B. Ellison and Danah M. Boyd, 151
9 The study of online relationships and dating / Barrie Gunter, 173
10 Games, online and off / Dmitri Williams and Adam S. Kahn, 195
11 Cross-national comparative perspectives from the World Internet Project / Gustavo Cardoso, Guo Liang, and Tiago Lapa, 216
III. CREATING AND WORKING IN A GLOBAL NETWORK ECONOMY
12 New businesses and new business models / Michael A. Cusumano and Andreas Goeldi, 239
13 Trust in commercial and personal transactions in the digital age / Regina Connolly, 262
14 Government and the Internet / Paul Henman, 283
15 Digital transformations of scholarship and knowledge / Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, 307
16 Studies of the Internet in learning and education / Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon, 328
IV. COMMUNICATION, POWER, AND INFLUENCE IN A CONVERGIN MEDIA WORLD
17 Theoretical perspectives in the study of communication and the Internet / Ronald E. Rice and Ryan P. Fuller, 353
18 Tradition and transformation in online news production and consumption / Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski, 378
19 The Internet in campaigns and elections / Darren G. Lilleker and Thierry Vedel, 401
20 The Internet and democracy / Helen Margetts, 421
V. GOVERNING AND REGULATING THE INTERNET
21 Analyzing freedom of expression online / Victoria Nash, 441
22 Cultural, legal, technical, and economic perspectives on copyright online / Matthew David, 464
23 Privacy and surveillance / Colin J. Bennett and Christopher Parsons, 486
24 Digital infrastructures, economies, and public policies / Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller, 509
25 The Internet and development / Tim Unwin, 531
26 The emerging field of Internet governance / Laura DeNardis, 555
I. PERSPECTIVES ON THE INTERNET AND WEB AS OBJECTS OF STUDY
2 The prehistory of the Internet and its traces in the present / Martin C. J. Elton and John Carey, 27
3 Web science / Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall, 48
4 Society on the Web / Mike Thelwall, 69
5 The Internet as infrastructure / Christian Sandvig, 86
II. LIVING IN A NETWORK SOCIETY
6 Network societies and Internet studies / Jack Linchuan Qiu, 109
7 Digital inequality / Eszter Hargittai and Yuli Patrick Hsieh, 129
8 Sociality through social network sites / Nicole B. Ellison and Danah M. Boyd, 151
9 The study of online relationships and dating / Barrie Gunter, 173
10 Games, online and off / Dmitri Williams and Adam S. Kahn, 195
11 Cross-national comparative perspectives from the World Internet Project / Gustavo Cardoso, Guo Liang, and Tiago Lapa, 216
III. CREATING AND WORKING IN A GLOBAL NETWORK ECONOMY
12 New businesses and new business models / Michael A. Cusumano and Andreas Goeldi, 239
13 Trust in commercial and personal transactions in the digital age / Regina Connolly, 262
14 Government and the Internet / Paul Henman, 283
15 Digital transformations of scholarship and knowledge / Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder, 307
16 Studies of the Internet in learning and education / Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon, 328
IV. COMMUNICATION, POWER, AND INFLUENCE IN A CONVERGIN MEDIA WORLD
17 Theoretical perspectives in the study of communication and the Internet / Ronald E. Rice and Ryan P. Fuller, 353
18 Tradition and transformation in online news production and consumption / Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski, 378
19 The Internet in campaigns and elections / Darren G. Lilleker and Thierry Vedel, 401
20 The Internet and democracy / Helen Margetts, 421
V. GOVERNING AND REGULATING THE INTERNET
21 Analyzing freedom of expression online / Victoria Nash, 441
22 Cultural, legal, technical, and economic perspectives on copyright online / Matthew David, 464
23 Privacy and surveillance / Colin J. Bennett and Christopher Parsons, 486
24 Digital infrastructures, economies, and public policies / Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller, 509
25 The Internet and development / Tim Unwin, 531
26 The emerging field of Internet governance / Laura DeNardis, 555
