This handbook, the first of its kind, is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives we can apply to the study of the internet as a political, social and communicative phenomenon. Covering both practical and theoretical angles, established researchers from around the world discuss everything: the foundations of internet research appear alongside chapters on understanding and analyzing current examples of online activities and artifacts. The material covers all continents and explores in depth subjects such as networked gaming, economics and the law.
The sheer scope and breadth of topics examined in this volume, which ranges from on-line communities to e-science via digital aesthetics, are evidence that in today’s world, internet research is a vibrant and mature field in which practitioners have long since stopped considering the internet as either an utopian or dystopian "new" space, but instead approach it as a medium that has become an integral part of our everyday culture and a natural mode of communication.
Author(s): Naomi S. Baron (auth.), Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, Matthew Allen (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 622
Tags: Computing Milieux; Social Sciences, general; Interdisciplinary Studies; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Computers and Society
Front Matter....Pages i-xxiv
Are Instant Messages Speech?....Pages 1-21
From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds....Pages 23-39
Visual Iconic Patterns of Instant Messaging: Steps Towards Understanding Visual Conversations....Pages 41-64
Research in e-Science and Open Access to Data and Information....Pages 65-96
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment....Pages 97-117
From Reader to Writer: Citizen Journalism as News Produsage....Pages 119-133
The Mereology of Digital Copyright....Pages 135-146
Traversing Urban Social Spaces: How Online Research Helps Unveil Offline Practice....Pages 147-158
Internet Aesthetics....Pages 159-170
Internet Sexualities....Pages 171-185
After Convergence: YouTube and Remix Culture....Pages 187-200
The Internet in Latin America....Pages 201-215
Campaigning in a Changing Information Environment: The Anti-war and Peace Movement in Britain....Pages 217-231
Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm....Pages 233-249
The Regulatory Framework for Privacy and Security....Pages 251-265
Toward Nomadological Cyberinfrastructures....Pages 267-278
Toward a Virtual Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0....Pages 279-294
“The Legal Bit’s in Russian”: Making Sense of Downloaded Music....Pages 295-308
Understanding Online (Game)worlds....Pages 309-323
Strategy and Structure for Online News Production – Case Studies of CNN and NRK....Pages 325-340
Political Economy, the Internet and FL/OSS Development....Pages 341-361
Intercreativity: Mapping Online Activism....Pages 363-377
Internet Reagency: The Implications of a Global Science for Collaboration, Productivity, and Gender Inequity in Less Developed Areas....Pages 379-394
Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft....Pages 395-410
Trouble with the Commercial: Internets Theorized and Used....Pages 411-422
(Dis)Connected: Deleuze’s Superject and the Internet....Pages 423-436
Language Deterioration Revisited: The Extent and Function of English Content in a Swedish Chat Room....Pages 437-453
Visual Communication in Web Design – Analyzing Visual Communication in Web Design....Pages 455-476
Feral Hypertext: When Hypertext Literature Escapes Control....Pages 477-492
The Possibilities of Network Sociality....Pages 493-505
Web Search Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Web Search Engines....Pages 507-521
Back Matter....Pages 523-622
