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The Handbook of Internet Studies

HANDBOOKS IN COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA

"Highly recommended." CHOICE

"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

"A comprehensive and useful volume that will appeal to students, teachers, and researchers. 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

"This handbook is landmark, documenting that Internet studies have now come of age." Niels Ole Finnemann, Aarhus University

To fully understand the impact and significance of the Internet, it is essential to consider its historical, societal, and cultural contexts. This handbook presents a wide range of original essays by established scholars in the field of Internet studies exploring the role of the Internet in modern societies, and the continuing development of its academic study.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Notes on Editors and Contributors (p. vii)
• Acknowledgments (p. xii)
• Introduction: What is "Internet Studies"? (p. 1)
• Part I Beyond the Great Divides? A Primer on Internet Histories, Methods, and Ethics (p. 9)
• Introduction to Part I (p. 11)
• 1 Studying the Internet Through the Ages (p. 17)
• 2 Web Archiving - Between Past, Present, and Future (p. 24)
• 3 New Media, Old Methods - Internet Methodologies and the Online/Offline Divide (p. 43)
• 4 The Internet in Everyday Life: Exploring the Tenets and Contributions of Diverse Approaches (p. 59)
• 5 Internet Research Ethics: Past, Present, and Future (p. 83)
• Part II Shaping Daily Life: The Internet and Society (p. 109)
• Introduction to Part II (p. 111)
• 6 Assessing the Internet's Impact on Language (p. 117)
• 7 Internet Policy (p. 137)
• 8 Political Discussion Online (p. 168)
• 9 Does the Internet Empower? A Look at the Internet and International Development (p. 188)
• 10 Internet and Health Communication (p. 212)
• 11 Internet and Religion (p. 232)
• 12 Indigenous Peoples on the Internet (p. 251)
• 13 Queering Internet Studies: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality (p. 270)
• Part III Internet and Culture (p. 301)
• Introduction to Part III (p. 303)
• 14 Community and the Internet (p. 309)
• 15 MOOs to MMOs: The Internet and Virtual Worlds (p. 326)
• 16 Internet, Children, and Youth (p. 348)
• 17 Internet and Games (p. 369)
• 18 Social Networks 2.0 (p. 384)
• 19 Newly Mediated Media: Understanding the Changing Internet Landscape of the Media Industries (p. 406)
• 20 Online Pornography: Ubiquitous and Effaced (p. 424)
• 21 Musk and the Internet (p. 440)
• 22 Why and How Online Sociability Became Part and Parcel of Teenage Life (p. 452)
• Index (p. 470)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

This substantial volume in Wiley's "Handbooks in Communications and Media" series presents a variety of academic approaches to explicating the Internet as a social phenomenon. Despite its pervasiveness in modern technological life, the Internet as a subject of study itself will be unfamiliar to many readers. Divided into three parts, covering methodology of Internet research, Internet and society, and Internet and culture, this handbook offers a broad view of how scholars (often allied with the Association of Internet Researchers) have been addressing the topic for several decades now, as the Internet is in the process of rapid development. In addition to valuable research frameworks, the reader approaching the Internet from a social science viewpoint can find here treatment of a wide, yet necessarily selective, range of societal topics as they are affected by the Internet as a communications medium--for example, religion, the notion of community, the transmission of medical information, teenage life, "virtual worlds," and the Internet's effect on language and political discussion. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty. D. E. Levinson Lake Forest College