The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

by Dutton, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780198708841
• ISBN10: 019870884X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-11-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

William H. Dutton, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College

William H. Dutton is Professor of Internet Studies at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College. Before coming to Oxford in 2002, Bill was a Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, where he continues an affiliation as Emeritus Professor. In the UK, Bill was a Fulbright Scholar, then National Director of the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT), and founding director of the OII during its first decade (2002-2011), for which he was awarded a lifetime achievement award. He has authored or edited a number of influential books on the social dynamics of the Internet and related information and communication technologies, including Society on the Line (OUP 1999).

Table of Contents

1. Internet Studies, William H. Dutton
Part I. Perspectives on the Internet and Web as Objects of Study
2. The Prehistory of the Internet and Its Traces in the Present: Implications for Defining the Field, Martin C. J. Elton and John Carey
3. Web Science, Kieron O Hara and Wendy Hall
4. Society on the Web, Michael Thelwall
5. The Internet as an Infrastructure, Christian Sandvig
Part II. Living in a Network Society
6. Network Societies and Internet Studies: Rethinking Time, Space, and Class, Jack Linchuan Qiu
7. Digital Inequality, Eszter Hargittai and Yuli Patrick Hsieh
8. Sociality through Social Network Sites, Nicole B. Ellison and danah m. boyd
9. The Study of Online Relationships and Dating, Barrie Gunter
10. Games, Online and Off, Dmitri Williams and Adam S. Kahn
11. Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project, Gustavo Cardozo, Guo Liang, and Tiago Lapa
Part III. Creating and Working in a Global Network Economy
12. New Businesses and New Business Models, Michael A. Cusumano and Andreas Goeldi
13. Trust in Commercial and Personal Transactions in the Digital Age, Regina Connolly
14. Government and the Internet e-Government, Paul Henman
15. Digital Transformations of Scholarship and Knowledge, Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder
16. Studies of the Internet in Learning and Education: Broadening the Disciplinary Landscape of Research, Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon
Part IV. Communication, Power, and Influence in a Converging Media World
17. Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet, Ronald E. Rice and Ryan Fuller
18. Tradition and Transformation in Online News Production and Consumption, Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski
19. The Internet in Campaigns and Elections, Darren G. Lilleker and Thierry Vedel
20. Democracy and the Internet, Helen Margetts
Part V. Governing and Regulating the Internet
21. Analysing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions, Victoria Nash
22. File-Sharing and Beyond: Cultural, Legal, Technical and Economic Perspectives on the Future of Copyright Online, Matthew David
23. Privacy and Surveillance: The Multi-Disciplinary Literature on the Capture, Use, and Disclosure of Personal information in Cyberspace, Colin J. Bennett and Christopher Parsons
24. Digital Infrastructures, Economies, and Public Policies: Contending Rationales and Outcome Assessment Strategies, Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller
25. The Internet and Development, Tim Unwin
26. The Emerging Field of Internet Governance, Laura DeNardis