This Handbook is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives that 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.? This Second International Handbook of Internet Research is an updated version of the first International Handbook of Internet Research that came out in 2010. Since then, the field has changed, and this new version retains a number of the key updated chapters from the first handbook, as well as completely new chapters.
Foundations: Affect and the Expression of Emotions on the Internet: An
Overview of Current Research.- An Obscure Object of Communicational Desire:
The Untold Story of Online Chat.- Big Social Data Approaches in Internet
Studies: The Case of Twitter.- Collaboration Between Social Sciences and
Computer Science: Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Methodology for Studying Big
Social Data from Online Communities.- Critical Internet Studies.- Digital
Activism Within Post-Fordism: Interventions Between Assimilation and
Exclusion.- Digital Folklore.- Historical Web as a Tool for Analyzing Social
Change.- How Computer Networks Became Social.- Lessons from Internet Art
About Life with the Internet.- Networks of Change: The Sociology of Network
Media.- After networks: A theory of online fields.- Researching Affordances.-
Research Programs as a Tool to Map Internet Studies.- Science and Medicine on
YouTube.- Spatial Analysis Meets Internet Research.- Combating the
Live-Streaming of Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation: A Need for New
Legislation.- What Media Logics Can Tell Us About the Internet?- Introduction
Foundations.- Telephone Interviewing as a Qualitative Methodology for
Researching Cyberinfrastructure and Virtual Organizations.- Degree Programs
in Internet Studies or Internet Research.- Research Ethics, Vulnerability,
and Trust on the Internet.- Logics and Legacy of Anonymous.- Feminized
Digital Sociality and Online Philanthropy.- Research Centers or Institutes in
Internet Research or Internet Studies. Futures: Introduction.- Blended Data:
Critiquing and Complementing Social Media Datasets, Big and Small.- Big Data
Approaches to the Study of Digital Media.- Big Capta?- Constitutive
Surveillance and Social Media.- Convergence, Internet, and Net Neutrality
Policy: What the Future Holds for the Internet and Online Content.-
Cryptographic Media.- Deep Data: Analyzing Power and Influence in Social
Media Networks.- Digitally Researching Islam.- Disguised Propaganda from
Digital to Social Media.- Ethics of Social Media Research: State of the
Debate and Future Challenges.- The Future of Crowdsourcing Through Games.-
Fuzzy Limits: Researching Discourse in the Internet with Corpora.- How to
Compare Different Social Media: A Conceptual and Technical Framework.-
Legislating for Internet access-ability.- New Media, Religion, and
Politics: A Comparative Investigation into the Dialogue between the Religious
and the Secular in France and in Vietnam.- Nexus Analysis as a Framework for
Internet Studies.- Lifelogging: Recording Life Patterns Tied to Daily
Internet Usage.- Paradoxes of the Cyber Party: The Changing Organizational
Design of the British Labour Party.- Smart Contracts as Evidence: Trust,
Records, and the Future of Decentralized Transactions.- Affective Flux of
Feminist Digital Collectives, or What Happened to the Womens March of 2017.-
Todays Internet for Tomorrows Cities: On Algorithmic Culture and Urban
Imaginaries.
Jeremy Hunsinger holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech. At Virginia Tech, he was one of the founders of the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture. He attended the Oxford Internet Institutes 2004 Summer Doctoral Programme and was an instructor there in 2009 and 2011. Jeremy was Graduate Fellow of the NSF Workshop on Values in Information Systems Design in 2005 and 2010. He was an Ethics Fellow at the Center for Information Policy Research at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, in 20072010. He was coeditor of the journal Learning Inquiry and has published in Fast Capitalism, The Information Society, Social Epistemology, and other leading academic journals. He recently also coedited a special issue on Learning and Research in Virtual Worlds for Learning, Media, & Technology. Jeremy coedited the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments and the International Handbook of Internet Research and has edited and contributed to several other volumes. Matthew M. Allen is Professor of Internet Studies at Deakin University, Geelong, Australia. Matthew led the establishment of Internet Studies as a teaching and research program within Australia, setting up the first degree programs at undergraduate and postgraduate level at Curtin University in the 1990s and being appointed as Professor of Internet Studies and Head of Department. He is an award-winning educator, a Fellow of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council, and has more than 20 years experience and expertise in teaching students via the Internet. He has written widely on topics in this field, focusing primarily on the way in which Internet technologies cannot be used as tools to improve learning but are part of the dialogic experience of shared learning and teaching between students and academics. He is also a leading researcher of social consequences and meanings of the Internet, most recently publishing highly-cited work on the history of the Internet, focused on the origins, impact, and end of the so-called web 2.0 period of Internet development. He is also a former President of the Association of Internet Researchers and helped internationalize the Association in its early years. His current research projects include consideration of the profound importance of the Chinese Internet, especially as it becomes a site of global political contestation; the recent history of the lived experience of broadband deployment in Australia; and the philosophical and cultural complexities of regulation of Internet content, conduct, and consequences.
Lisbeth Klastrup holds a Ph.D. in Digital Culture and Communication from the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Lisbeth Klastrup is Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Since 1999, she has studied online culture, digital communication, and social inter-action, with a specific focus on the everyday uses of social media, transmedial worlds, and multiplayer gameworlds. Her current research focuses on the mediation of death on social media, the use of transmedial world in everyday digital life, and the use of social media and memes in Danish elections. She has published several articles and book chapters within the areas mentioned and is coeditor of the first Danish book on digital media analysis (Digitale Verdener 2004), coeditor of the first International Handbook of Internet Research, author of an introductory book on Social Network Media (Sociale Netværksmedier, DK 2016), and coauthor of the forthcoming book Transmedial Worlds in Everyday Life: Networked Reception, Social Media, and Fictional Worlds (Tosca and Klastrup 2019).
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