Philip N. Howard is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at the University of Washington. He has published several articles and chapters on the use of new media in politics and public opinion research, was the first politics research fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and currently serves on the advisory board of the Survey2001 Project. He teaches courses in political communication, organizational behavior, and international media systems, and is currently preparing a book-length manuscript called Politics In Code: Franchise and Representation in the Age of New Media.Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.

“These editors have the respect, visibility, and track-record to make this volume a contribution to the field of Internet studies.  It will be adopted as an upper-division text and can also serve as a valuable reference work for doctoral students.  Given its broad mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this work should have wide appeal across the Social Sciences and Information Studies.”

• AcknowledgementsForeword - Howard "Lee" RainiePrologue. The Case for Multi-Method Research: Large Sample Design & The Study of Life Online - James WitteChapter 1: Introduction. Embedded Media: Who We Know, What We Know, and Society Online - Philip N. Howard and Steve JonesPART I. SOCIAL CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, AND CONTENTChapter 2: The Bridging and Bonding Role of Online Communities - Pippa NorrisChapter 3: Deeper Understanding, Deeper Ties: Taking Faith Online - Elena LarsenChapter 4: Bending Gender into the Net: Feminizing Content, Corporate Interests, and Research Strategy - Leslie Regan ShadeChapter 5: Interrogating the Digital Divide: The Political Economy of Race and Commerce in New Media - Lisa NakamuraPART II. WIRED NEWS AND POLITICS ONLINE Chapter 6: Will Internet Voting Increase Turnout? An Analysis of Voter Preference - Jennifer Stromer-GalleyChapter 7: The Internet and Political Involvement in 1996 and 2000 - Ronald E. Rice and James E. KatzChapter 8: New Media, Internet News, and the News Habit - Carin DessauerChapter 9: Crisis Communication and New Media: The Web After September 11 - Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. FootPART III. ECONOMICE LIFE ONLINEChapter 10: ′sHoP onLiNE!′: Advertising Female Teen Cyberculture - David Silver and Philip GarlandChapter 11: Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era - Gina Neff and David StarkChapter 12: Art Versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills - Nalini P. KotamrajuPART IV. CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION ONLINEChapter 13: Wired and Well-Read - Wendy Griswold and Nathan WrightChapter 14: The Disembodied Muse: Music in the Internet Age - Richard A. Peterson and John RyanChapter 15: Technology & Tolerance: Public Opinion Differences Among Internet Users and Nonusers - John P. Robinson, Alan Neustadtl, and Meyer KestnbaumPART V. PERSONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS OF LIFE ONLINEChapter 16: Informed Web Surfing: The Social Context of User Sophistication - Eszter HargittaiChapter 17: U.S. American Internet Users and Privacy: A Safe Harbor of Their Own? - Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Dan L. Burk, and Laura J. GurakChapter 18: Sited Materials with a Global Span - Saskia SassenChapter 19: The Future of Internet: Cultural and Individual Conceptions - William Sims BainbridgeChapter 20: Conclusion: Contexting the Network - Steve Jones

Philip N. Howard is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at the University of Washington. He has published several articles and chapters on the use of new media in politics and public opinion research, was the first politics research fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and currently serves on the advisory board of the Survey2001 Project. He teaches courses in political communication, organizational behavior, and international media systems, and is currently preparing a book-length manuscript called Politics In Code: Franchise and Representation in the Age of New Media.Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.

“These editors have the respect, visibility, and track-record to make this volume a contribution to the field of Internet studies.  It will be adopted as an upper-division text and can also serve as a valuable reference work for doctoral students.  Given its broad mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this work should have wide appeal across the Social Sciences and Information Studies.”

• AcknowledgementsForeword - Howard "Lee" RainiePrologue. The Case for Multi-Method Research: Large Sample Design & The Study of Life Online - James WitteChapter 1: Introduction. Embedded Media: Who We Know, What We Know, and Society Online - Philip N. Howard and Steve JonesPART I. SOCIAL CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, AND CONTENTChapter 2: The Bridging and Bonding Role of Online Communities - Pippa NorrisChapter 3: Deeper Understanding, Deeper Ties: Taking Faith Online - Elena LarsenChapter 4: Bending Gender into the Net: Feminizing Content, Corporate Interests, and Research Strategy - Leslie Regan ShadeChapter 5: Interrogating the Digital Divide: The Political Economy of Race and Commerce in New Media - Lisa NakamuraPART II. WIRED NEWS AND POLITICS ONLINE Chapter 6: Will Internet Voting Increase Turnout? An Analysis of Voter Preference - Jennifer Stromer-GalleyChapter 7: The Internet and Political Involvement in 1996 and 2000 - Ronald E. Rice and James E. KatzChapter 8: New Media, Internet News, and the News Habit - Carin DessauerChapter 9: Crisis Communication and New Media: The Web After September 11 - Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. FootPART III. ECONOMICE LIFE ONLINEChapter 10: ′sHoP onLiNE!′: Advertising Female Teen Cyberculture - David Silver and Philip GarlandChapter 11: Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era - Gina Neff and David StarkChapter 12: Art Versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills - Nalini P. KotamrajuPART IV. CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION ONLINEChapter 13: Wired and Well-Read - Wendy Griswold and Nathan WrightChapter 14: The Disembodied Muse: Music in the Internet Age - Richard A. Peterson and John RyanChapter 15: Technology & Tolerance: Public Opinion Differences Among Internet Users and Nonusers - John P. Robinson, Alan Neustadtl, and Meyer KestnbaumPART V. PERSONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS OF LIFE ONLINEChapter 16: Informed Web Surfing: The Social Context of User Sophistication - Eszter HargittaiChapter 17: U.S. American Internet Users and Privacy: A Safe Harbor of Their Own? - Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Dan L. Burk, and Laura J. GurakChapter 18: Sited Materials with a Global Span - Saskia SassenChapter 19: The Future of Internet: Cultural and Individual Conceptions - William Sims BainbridgeChapter 20: Conclusion: Contexting the Network - Steve Jones

Philip N. Howard is an assistant professor in the Communication Department at the University of Washington. He has published several articles and chapters on the use of new media in politics and public opinion research, was the first politics research fellow at the Pew Internet & American Life Project and currently serves on the advisory board of the Survey2001 Project. He teaches courses in political communication, organizational behavior, and international media systems, and is currently preparing a book-length manuscript called Politics In Code: Franchise and Representation in the Age of New Media.Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.

“These editors have the respect, visibility, and track-record to make this volume a contribution to the field of Internet studies.  It will be adopted as an upper-division text and can also serve as a valuable reference work for doctoral students.  Given its broad mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this work should have wide appeal across the Social Sciences and Information Studies.”

• AcknowledgementsForeword - Howard "Lee" RainiePrologue. The Case for Multi-Method Research: Large Sample Design & The Study of Life Online - James WitteChapter 1: Introduction. Embedded Media: Who We Know, What We Know, and Society Online - Philip N. Howard and Steve JonesPART I. SOCIAL CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, AND CONTENTChapter 2: The Bridging and Bonding Role of Online Communities - Pippa NorrisChapter 3: Deeper Understanding, Deeper Ties: Taking Faith Online - Elena LarsenChapter 4: Bending Gender into the Net: Feminizing Content, Corporate Interests, and Research Strategy - Leslie Regan ShadeChapter 5: Interrogating the Digital Divide: The Political Economy of Race and Commerce in New Media - Lisa NakamuraPART II. WIRED NEWS AND POLITICS ONLINE Chapter 6: Will Internet Voting Increase Turnout? An Analysis of Voter Preference - Jennifer Stromer-GalleyChapter 7: The Internet and Political Involvement in 1996 and 2000 - Ronald E. Rice and James E. KatzChapter 8: New Media, Internet News, and the News Habit - Carin DessauerChapter 9: Crisis Communication and New Media: The Web After September 11 - Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. FootPART III. ECONOMICE LIFE ONLINEChapter 10: ′sHoP onLiNE!′: Advertising Female Teen Cyberculture - David Silver and Philip GarlandChapter 11: Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era - Gina Neff and David StarkChapter 12: Art Versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills - Nalini P. KotamrajuPART IV. CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION ONLINEChapter 13: Wired and Well-Read - Wendy Griswold and Nathan WrightChapter 14: The Disembodied Muse: Music in the Internet Age - Richard A. Peterson and John RyanChapter 15: Technology & Tolerance: Public Opinion Differences Among Internet Users and Nonusers - John P. Robinson, Alan Neustadtl, and Meyer KestnbaumPART V. PERSONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS OF LIFE ONLINEChapter 16: Informed Web Surfing: The Social Context of User Sophistication - Eszter HargittaiChapter 17: U.S. American Internet Users and Privacy: A Safe Harbor of Their Own? - Doreen Starke-Meyerring, Dan L. Burk, and Laura J. GurakChapter 18: Sited Materials with a Global Span - Saskia SassenChapter 19: The Future of Internet: Cultural and Individual Conceptions - William Sims BainbridgeChapter 20: Conclusion: Contexting the Network - Steve Jones