Handbook of Internet Studies

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.

“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 shaping and being shaped by human cultures and societies, and the various ways in which scholars might consider and approach such processes.”  (Digital Journalism, 19 August 2014)

• Notes on Editors and ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: What is “Internet Studies”? 1Charles Ess and Mia ConsalvoPart I Beyond the Great Divides? A Primer on Internet Histories, Methods, and Ethics 9Introduction to Part I 11Charles Ess1 Studying the Internet Through the Ages 17Barry Wellman2 Web Archiving – Between Past, Present, and Future 24Niels Brügger3 New Media, Old Methods – Internet Methodologies and the Online/Offline Divide 43Klaus Bruhn Jensen4 The Internet in Everyday Life: Exploring the Tenets and Contributions of Diverse Approaches 59Maria Bakardjieva5 Internet Research Ethics: Past, Present, and Future 83Elizabeth A. BuchananPart II Shaping Daily Life: The Internet and Society 109Introduction to Part II 111Mia Consalvo6 Assessing the Internet’s Impact on Language 117Naomi S. Baron7 Internet Policy 137Sandra Braman8 Political Discussion Online 168Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Alexis Wichowski9 Does the Internet Empower? A Look at the Internet and International Development 188Deborah L. Wheeler10 Internet and Health Communication 212Lorna Heaton11 Internet and Religion 232Heidi Campbell12 Indigenous Peoples on the Internet 251Laurel Dyson13 Queering Internet Studies: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality 270Janne Bromseth and Jenny SundénIntroduction to Part III 303Mia Consalvo14 Community and the Internet 309Lori Kendall15 MOOs to MMOs: The Internet and Virtual Worlds 326Mia Consalvo16 Internet, Children, and Youth 348Sonia Livingstone17 Internet and Games 369T. L. Taylor18 Social Networks 2.0 384Nancy K. Baym19 Newly Mediated Media: Understanding the Changing Internet Landscape of the Media Industries 406P. David Marshall20 Online Pornography: Ubiquitous and Effaced 424Susanna Paasonen21 Music and the Internet 440Steve Jones22 Why and How Online Sociability Became Part and Parcel of Teenage Life 452Marika LüdersIndex 470