The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

by William H. Dutton (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199589074
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	03/01/2013
Series:	Oxford Handbooks
Pages:	628
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.70(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

William H. Dutton is Professor of Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College. Before coming to Oxford in 2002, Bill was a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, where he continues an affiliation as Emeritus Professor. In the UK, Bill was a Fulbright Scholar, then National Director of the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT), and founding director of the OII during its first decade (2002-2011), for which he was awarded a lifetime achievement award. He has authored or edited a number of influential books on the social dynamics of the Internet and related information and communication technologies, including Society on the Line (OUP 1999).

Table of Contents

1. Internet Studies, William H. DuttonPart I. Perspectives on the Internet and Web as Objects of Study2. The Prehistory of the Internet and Its Traces in the Present: Implications for Defining the Field, Martin C. J. Elton and John Carey3. Web Science, Kieron O Hara and Wendy Hall4. Society on the Web, Michael Thelwall5. The Internet as an Infrastructure, Christian SandvigPart II. Living in a Network Society6. Network Societies and Internet Studies: Rethinking Time, Space, and Class, Jack Linchuan Qiu7. Digital Inequality, Eszter Hargittai and Yuli Patrick Hsieh8. Sociality through Social Network Sites, Nicole B. Ellison and danah m. boyd9. The Study of Online Relationships and Dating, Barrie Gunter10. Games, Online and Off, Dmitri Williams and Adam S. Kahn11. Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project, Gustavo Cardozo, Guo Liang, and Tiago LapaPart III. Creating and Working in a Global Network Economy12. New Businesses and New Business Models, Michael A. Cusumano and Andreas Goeldi13. Trust in Commercial and Personal Transactions in the Digital Age, Regina Connolly14. Government and the Internet e-Government, Paul Henman15. Digital Transformations of Scholarship and Knowledge, Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder16. Studies of the Internet in Learning and Education: Broadening the Disciplinary Landscape of Research, Chris Davies and Rebecca EynonPart IV. Communication, Power, and Influence in a Converging Media World17. Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet, Ronald E. Rice and Ryan Fuller18. Tradition and Transformation in Online News Production and Consumption, Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski19. The Internet in Campaigns and Elections, Darren G. Lilleker and Thierry Vedel20. Democracy and the Internet, Helen MargettsPart V. Governing and Regulating the Internet21. Analysing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions, Victoria Nash22. File-Sharing and Beyond: Cultural, Legal, Technical and Economic Perspectives on the Future of Copyright Online, Matthew David23. Privacy and Surveillance: The Multi-Disciplinary Literature on the Capture, Use, and Disclosure of Personal information in Cyberspace, Colin J. Bennett and Christopher Parsons24. Digital Infrastructures, Economies, and Public Policies: Contending Rationales and Outcome Assessment Strategies, Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller25. The Internet and Development, Tim Unwin26. The Emerging Field of Internet Governance, Laura DeNardis

Editorial Reviews

"An excellent work that includes the timely discourse about the internet, The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies, edited by William H. Dutton, is an engaging book enriched by thoroughly researched contributions from a team of strong academics from around the globe. With material presented in a comprehensive manner, this handbook offers a critical perspective context on the field of Internet studies and will be of tremendous interest to researchers and scholars in the field and serve as a reference point for future studies... it will definitely complement other handbooks and can be added to the list of scholarly must-have titles in the field of media and communication studies." —International Journal of Communication

"Overall, the articles are well written and well edited; a 30-page index facilitates access to specific information." -M. Knee, University at Albany, SUNY, CHOICE

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