The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

by Dutton, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780199589074
• ISBN10: 0199589070
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2013-03-01
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies provides a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied with views of how the research agenda should be pursued in the future. Topics covered include social perspectives on the technology ofthe Internet, its role in everyday life and work, implications for communication, power, and influence, and the governance and regulation of the Internet. The Handbook is a landmark in this new interdisciplinary field.

Author Biography

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

Internet Studies

Perspectives on the Internet and Web as Objects of Study

The Prehistory of the Internet and Its Traces in the Present: Implications for Defining the Field

Web Science

Society on the Web

The Internet as an Infrastructure

Living in a Network Society

Network Societies and Internet Studies: Rethinking Time, Space, and Class

Digital Inequality

Sociality through Social Network Sites

The Study of Online Relationships and Dating

Games, Online and Off

Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project

Creating and Working in a Global Network Economy

New Businesses and New Business Models

Trust in Commercial and Personal Transactions in the Digital Age

Government and the Internet e-Government

Digital Transformations of Scholarship and Knowledge

Studies of the Internet in Learning and Education: Broadening the Disciplinary Landscape of Research

Communication, Power, and Influence in a Converging Media World

Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet

Tradition and Transformation in Online News Production and Consumption

The Internet in Campaigns and Elections

Democracy and the Internet

Governing and Regulating the Internet

Analysing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions

File-Sharing and Beyond: Cultural, Legal, Technical and Economic Perspectives on the Future of Copyright Online

Privacy and Surveillance: The Multi-Disciplinary Literature on the Capture, Use, and Disclosure of Personal information in Cyberspace

Digital Infrastructures, Economies, and Public Policies: Contending Rationales and Outcome Assessment Strategies

The Internet and Development

The Emerging Field of Internet Governance

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