The Oxford handbook of Internet studies.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- xx, 607 p. ; 26 cm.
- Oxford handbooks in business and management .
Contents List of Figures List of Tables List of Abbreviations Notes on the Contributors 1. Internet Studies The Foundations of a Transformative Field PART I PERSPECTIVES ON THE INTERNET AND WEB AS OBJECTS OF STUDY 2. The Prehistory of the Internet and its Traces in the Present Implications for Defining the Field 3. Web Science 4. Society on the Web 5. The Internet as Infrastructure PART II LIVING IN A NETWORK SOCIETY 6. Network Societies and Internet Studies Rethinking Time, Space, and Class 7. Digital Inequality 8. Sociality through Social Network Sites 9. The Study of Online Relationships and Dating 10. Games, Online and Off 11. Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project PART III CREATING AND WORKING IN A GLOBAL NET NETWORK ECONOMY 12. New Businesses and New Business Models 13. Trust in Commercial and Personal Transactions, Enduring Research Themes 14. Government and the Internet Evolving Technologies, Enduring Research Themes 15. Digital Transformations of Scholarship and Knowledge 16. Studies of the Internet in Learning and Education Broadening the Disciplinary Landscape of Research PARTIV COMMUNTCATION, POWER, AND INFLUENCE IN A CONVERGING MEDIA WORLD 17. Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet 18. Tradition and Transformation in Online News Production and Consumption 19. The Internet in Campaigns and Elections 20. The Internet and Democracy PARTV GOVERNING AND REGULATING THE INTERNET 21. Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions 22. Cultural, Legal, Technical, and Economic Perspectives on Copyright Online The Case of the Music Industry 23. Privacy and Surveillance The Multidisciplinary Literature on the Capture, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information in Cyberspace 24. Digital Infrastructures, Economies, and Public Policies Contending Rationales and Outcome Assessment Strategies 25. The Internet and Development A Critical Perspective 26. The Emerging Field of Internet Governance
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 valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the future. The Handbook 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, its role in everyday life and work, implications for communication, power, and influence, and the governance and regulation of the Internet.
The Handbook is a landmark in this new interdisciplinary field, not only helping to strengthen research on the key questions, but also 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.