The handbook of internet studies / edited by Mia Consalvo and Charles Ess. - 1 online resource - Handbooks in communication and media . - Handbooks in communication and media. .

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Notes on Editors and Contributors.
Acknowledgments.

Introduction (Charles Ess and Mia Consalvo).

Part I: Beyond the Great Divides? A Primer on Internet Histories, Methods, and Ethics.

Introduction to Part I (Charles Ess).

1. Studying the Internet Through the Ages (Barry Wellman).

2. Web Archiving – Between Past, Present, and Future (Niels Brügger).

3. New Media, Old Methods – Internet Methodologies and the Online/Offline Divide (Klaus Bruhn Jensen).

4. The Internet in Everyday Life: Exploring the Tenets and Contributions of Diverse Approaches (Maria Bakardjieva).

5. Internet Research Ethics: Past, Present, and Future (Elizabeth A. Buchanan).

Part II: Shaping Daily Life: The Internet and Society.

Introduction to Part II (Mia Consalvo).

6. Assessing the Internet’s Impact on Language (Naomi S. Baron).

7. Internet Policy (Sandra Braman).

8. Political Discussion Online (Jennifer Stromer-Galley and Alexis Wichowski).

9. Does the Internet Empower? A Look at the Internet and International Development (Deborah L. Wheeler).

10. Internet and Health Communication (Lorna Heaton).

11. Internet and Religion (Heidi Campbell).

12. Indigenous Peoples on the Internet (Laurel Dyson).

13. Queering Internet Studies: Intersections of Gender and Sexuality (Janne Bromseth and Jenny Sundén).

Part III: Internet and Culture.

Introduction to Part III (Mia Consalvo).

14. Community and the Internet (Lori Kendall).

15. MOOs to MMOs: The Internet and Virtual Worlds (Mia Consalvo).

16. Internet, Children, and Youth (Sonia Livingstone).

17. Internet and Games (T. L. Taylor).

18. Social Networks 2.0 (Nancy K. Baym).

19. Newly Mediated Media: Understanding the Changing Internet Landscape of the Media Industries (P. David Marshall).

20. Online Pornography: Ubiquitous and Effaced (Susanna Paasonen).

21. Music and the Internet (Robert Burnett).

22. Why and How Online Sociability Became Part and Parcel of Teenage Life (Marika Lüders).

Index.

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