International Handbook of Internet Research

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxiv

   PDF

2. Are Instant Messages Speech?

   • Naomi S. Baron

   Pages 1-21

3. From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds

   • Richard A. Bartle

   Pages 23-39

4. Visual Iconic Patterns of Instant Messaging: Steps Towards Understanding Visual Conversations

   • Hillary Bays

   Pages 41-64

5. Research in e-Science and Open Access to Data and Information

   • Matthijs den Besten, Paul A. David, Ralph Schroeder

   Pages 65-96

6. Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment

   • Geoffrey C. Bowker, Karen Baker, Florence Millerand, David Ribes

   Pages 97-117

7. From Reader to Writer: Citizen Journalism as News Produsage

   • Axel Bruns

   Pages 119-133

8. The Mereology of Digital Copyright

   • Dan L. Burk

   Pages 135-146

9. Traversing Urban Social Spaces: How Online Research Helps Unveil Offline Practice

   • Julie-Anne Carroll, Marcus Foth, Barbara Adkins

   Pages 147-158

10. Internet Aesthetics

    • Sean Cubitt

    Pages 159-170

11. Internet Sexualities

    • Nicola Döring

    Pages 171-185

12. After Convergence: YouTube and Remix Culture

    • Anders Fagerjord

    Pages 187-200

13. The Internet in Latin America

    • Suely Fragoso, Alberto Efendy Maldonado

    Pages 201-215

14. Campaigning in a Changing Information Environment: The Anti-war and Peace Movement in Britain

    • Kevin Gillan, Jenny Pickerill, Frank Webster

    Pages 217-231

15. Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm

    • Susan C. Herring

    Pages 233-249

16. The Regulatory Framework for Privacy and Security

    • Janine S. Hiller

    Pages 251-265

17. Toward Nomadological Cyberinfrastructures

    • Jeremy Hunsinger

    Pages 267-278

18. Toward a Virtual Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0

    • Andrea Kavanaugh, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, John C. Tedesco, William Sanders

    Pages 279-294

19. “The Legal Bit’s in Russian”: Making Sense of Downloaded Music

    • Marjorie D. Kibby

    Pages 295-308

20. Understanding Online (Game)worlds

    • Lisbeth Klastrup

    Pages 309-323

Internet research spans many disciplines. From the computer or information s- ences, through engineering, and to social sciences, humanities and the arts, almost all of our disciplines have made contributions to internet research, whether in the effort to understand the effect of the internet on their area of study, or to investigate the social and political changes related to the internet, or to design and develop so- ware and hardware for the network. The possibility and extent of contributions of internet research vary across disciplines, as do the purposes, methods, and outcomes. Even the epistemological underpinnings differ widely. The internet, then, does not have a discipline of study for itself: It is a ?eld for research (Baym, 2005), an open environment that simultaneously supports many approaches and techniques not otherwise commensurable with each other. There are, of course, some inhibitions that limit explorations in this ?eld: research ethics, disciplinary conventions, local and national norms, customs, laws, borders, and so on. Yet these limits on the int- net as a ?eld for research have not prevented the rapid expansion and exploration of the internet. After nearly two decades of research and scholarship, the limits are a positive contribution, providing bases for discussion and interrogation of the contexts of our research, making internet research better for all. These ‘limits,’ challenges that constrain the theoretically limitless space for internet research, create boundaries that give de?nition to the ?eld and provide us with a particular topography that enables research and investigation.

• Internet
• Internet research
• MMOG
• blogs
• cyberculture
• cyberinfrastructure
• digital aesthetics
• e-science
• governance
• information society
• network culture
• network society
• new media online communities
• newsproduction
• online communication
• virtual soci

From the reviews:

“A valuable book consisting of 31 essays, research reports, and professional papers on Internet issues, research, controversies, and more. The book could be useful as a personal reference, or as a source for ideas for one’s own research agenda. It could be useful in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course … . Businesses might find it useful as a source of ideas for new business Internet ventures. … Due to the various topics discussed, the book is best used as a research tool.” (J. Fendrich, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2011)

• Dept. Political Science, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA

  Jeremy Hunsinger

• Atlanta, USA

  Lisbeth Klastrup

• Fac. Media, Society & Culture, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia

  Matthew Allen

Policies and ethics