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.