Table of Contents

Notes on Editors and Contributors vii Acknowledgments xii Introduction: What is "Internet Studies"? 1 Charles Ess and Mia Consalvo Part I Beyond the Great Divides? A Primer on Internet Histories, Methods, and Ethics 9 Introduction to Part I 11 Charles Ess 1 Studying the Internet Through the Ages 17 Barry Wellman 2 Web Archiving - Between Past, Present, and Future 24 Niels Brugger 3 New Media, Old Methods - Internet Methodologies and the Online/Offline Divide 43 Klaus Bruhn Jensen 4 The Internet in Everyday Life: Exploring the Tenets and Contributions of Diverse Approaches 59 Maria Bakardjieva 5 Internet Research Ethics: Past, Present, and Future 83 Elizabeth A. Buchanan Part II Shaping Daily Life: The Internet and Society 109 Introduction to Part II 111 Mia Consalvo 6 Assessing the Internet's Impact on Language 117 Naomi S. Baron 7 Internet Policy 137 Sandra Braman 8 Political Discussion Online 168 Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Alexis Wichowski 9 Does the Internet Empower? A Look at the Internet and International Development 188 Deborah L. Wheeler 10 Internet and Health Communication 212 Lorna Heaton 11 Internet and Religion 232 Heidi Campbell 12 Indigenous Peoples on the Internet 251 Laurel Dyson 13 Queering Internet Studies: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality 270 Janne Bromseth and Jenny Sunden Part III Internet and Culture 301 Introduction to Part III 303 Mia Consalvo 14 Community and the Internet 309 Lori Kendall 15 MOOs to MMOs: The Internet and Virtual Worlds 326 Mia Consalvo 16 Internet, Children, and Youth 348 Sonia Livingstone 17 Internet and Games 369 T. L. Taylor 18 Social Networks 2.0 384 Nancy K. Baym 19 Newly Mediated Media: Understanding the Changing Internet Landscape of the Media Industries 406 P. David Marshall 20 Online Pornography: Ubiquitous and Effaced 424 Susanna Paasonen 21 Music and the Internet 440 Steve Jones 22 Why and How Online Sociability Became Part and Parcel of Teenage Life 452 Marika Luders Index 470

Promotional Information

"The editors of the Handbook of Internet Studies are to be congratulated on creating a state-of-the art collection that represents and celebrates the diversity of theoretical and disciplinary approaches marking this brave new field. A new must-have reference book for Internet Studies." Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of Illinois "This indispensable volume reflects the complexity of Internet studies--indeed, the Internet itself--by bringing together a diverse set of voices, geographies, disciplines, and arguments. It is not only an important resource for practitioners, but will also spark the curiosity of those on the edges of the field, including humanists, social scientists, and engineers alike." Michael Zimmer, University of Wisconsin "The Handbook of Internet Studies is a comprehensive and useful volume that will appeal to students, teachers and researchers. It provides a welcome survey of the still-emerging field of Internet Studies and can readily serve as a jumping-off point for further exploration. I highly recommend it to those who have been following the field since its emergence in the 1990s as well as to those new to the field." Steve Jones, University of Illinois at Chicago "Of all media, the internet holds the most wide-ranging, deep and complex depiction of contemporary society. If you want to understand today's society, you need to study the internet. This handbook is landmark, documenting that internet studies have now come of age." Niels Ole Finnemann, Aarhus University, Denmark

About the Author

Mia Consalvo is Canada Research Chair in Game Studies & Design at Concordia University, Canada. Charles Ess is Associate Professor in Media Studies in the Department of Media and Communication at University of Oslo, Norway.

Reviews

"Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty." (Choice, 1 April 2012) "Together, the comprehensive and quite thought-provoking individual essays provide richly insightful perspectives into the extent to which the internet is hsaping and being shaped by human cultures and societies, and the various ways in which scholars might consider and approach such processes." (Digital Journalism, 14 June 2013)