Table of Contents

1: William H. Dutton: Internet Studies
Part I. Perspectives on the Internet and Web as Objects of Study
2: Martin C. J. Elton and John Carey: The Prehistory of the Internet and Its Traces in the Present: Implications for Defining the Field
3: Kieron O Hara and Wendy Hall: Web Science
4: Michael Thelwall: Society on the Web
5: Christian Sandvig: The Internet as an Infrastructure
Part II. Living in a Network Society
6: Jack Linchuan Qiu: Network Societies and Internet Studies: Rethinking Time, Space, and Class
7: Eszter Hargittai and Yuli Patrick Hsieh: Digital Inequality
8: Nicole B. Ellison and danah m. boyd: Sociality through Social Network Sites
9: Barrie Gunter: The Study of Online Relationships and Dating
10: Dmitri Williams and Adam S. Kahn: Games, Online and Off
11: Gustavo Cardozo, Guo Liang, and Tiago Lapa: Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project
Part III. Creating and Working in a Global Network Economy
12: Michael A. Cusumano and Andreas Goeldi: New Businesses and New Business Models
13: Regina Connolly: Trust in Commercial and Personal Transactions in the Digital Age
14: Paul Henman: Government and the Internet e-Government
15: Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder: Digital Transformations of Scholarship and Knowledge
16: Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon: Studies of the Internet in Learning and Education: Broadening the Disciplinary Landscape of Research
Part IV. Communication, Power, and Influence in a Converging Media World
17: Ronald E. Rice and Ryan Fuller: Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet
18: Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski: Tradition and Transformation in Online News Production and Consumption
19: Darren G. Lilleker and Thierry Vedel: The Internet in Campaigns and Elections
20: Helen Margetts: Democracy and the Internet
Part V. Governing and Regulating the Internet
21: Victoria Nash: Analysing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions
22: Matthew David: File-Sharing and Beyond: Cultural, Legal, Technical and Economic Perspectives on the Future of Copyright Online
23: Colin J. Bennett and Christopher Parsons: Privacy and Surveillance: The Multi-Disciplinary Literature on the Capture, Use, and Disclosure of Personal information in Cyberspace
24: Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller: Digital Infrastructures, Economies, and Public Policies: Contending Rationales and Outcome Assessment Strategies
25: Tim Unwin: The Internet and Development
26: Laura DeNardis: The Emerging Field of Internet Governance

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).

Reviews

In this ever-extending frame, ^iThe Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies^r aims to provide an authoritative synthesis and critical assessment of the research in this emerging area of scholarship.
*Monika Zalnieriute, Computer Law and Security Review*