Hunsinger J., Klastrup L., Allen M. (Eds.) International Handbook of Internet Research

Springer, 2010. — 632 p. — ISBN: 978-1-4020-9788-1.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.Are Instant Messages Speech?
From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds
Visual Iconic Patterns of Instant Messaging: Steps Towards Understanding Visual Conversations
Research in e-Science and Open Access to Data and Information
Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways of Knowing in a Networked Environment
From Reader to Writer: Citizen Journalism as News Produsage
The Mereology of Digital Copyright
Traversing Urban Social Spaces: How Online Research Helps Unveil Offline Practice
Internet Sexualities
After Convergence: YouTube and Remix Culture
The Internet in Latin America
Campaigning in a Changing Information Environment: The Anti-war and Peace Movement in Britain
Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm
The Regulatory Framework for Privacy and Security
Toward Nomadological Cyberinfrastructures
Toward a Virtual Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0
“The Legal Bit’s in Russian”: Making Sense of Downloaded Music
Understanding Online (Game)worlds
Strategy and Structure for Online News Production – Case Studies of CNN and NRK
Political Economy, the Internet and FL/OSS Development
Intercreativity: Mapping Online Activism
Internet Reagency: The Implications of a Global Science for Collaboration, Productivity, and Gender Inequity in Less Developed Areas
Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play inWorld of Warcraft
Trouble with the Commercial: Internets Theorized and Used
(Dis)Connected: Deleuze’s Superject and the Internet
Language Deterioration Revisited: The Extent and Function of English Content in a Swedish Chat Room
Visual Communication in Web Design – Analyzing Visual Communication inWeb Design
Feral Hypertext: When Hypertext Literature Escapes Control
The Possibilities of Network Sociality
Web Search Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Web Search Engines
Appendix A: Degree Programs
Appendix B: Major Research Centers and Institutes