International Handbook of Internet Research

From the reviews: "A valuable book consisting of 31 essays, research reports, and professional papers on Internet issues, research, controversies, and more. The book could be useful as a personal reference, or as a source for ideas for one's own research agenda. It could be useful in an advanced undergraduate or graduate course ... . Businesses might find it useful as a source of ideas for new business Internet ventures. ... Due to the various topics discussed, the book is best used as a research tool." (J. Fendrich, ACM Computing Reviews, August, 2011)

• 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 Aesthetics.- 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 in World 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 in Web Design.- Feral Hypertext: When Hypertext Literature Escapes Control.- ThePossibilities of Network Sociality.- Web Search Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Web Search Engines.