ISBN:
9780191641176
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 online resource (628 pages)
Serie:
Oxford Handbooks Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.4833
Schlagwort(e):
Internet-Law and legislation
;
Internet-Social aspects
;
Internet-Study and teaching
;
Internet-Economic aspects
;
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
The Handbook is a landmark in the dynamic and rapidly expanding field of Internet Studies, bringing together leading international scholars to strengthen research on how the Internet has been studied and the discipline's fundamental questions, and shape research, policy, and practice for the future.
Kurzfassung:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1. Internet Studies: The Foundations of a Transformative Field -- 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 -- 3. Web Science -- 4. Society on the Web -- 5. The Internet as Infrastructure -- PART II: LIVING IN A NETWORK SOCIETY -- 6. Network Societies and Internet Studies: Rethinking Time, Space, and Class -- 7. Digital Inequality -- 8. Sociality through Social Network Sites -- 9. The Study of Online Relationships and Dating -- 10. Games, Online and Off -- 11. Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project -- PART III: CREATING AND WORKING IN A GLOBAL NETWORK ECONOMY -- 12. New Businesses and New Business Models -- 13. Trust in Commercial and Personal Transactions in the Digital Age -- 14. Government and the Internet: Evolving Technologies, Enduring Research Themes -- 15. Digital Transformations of Scholarship and Knowledge -- 16. Studies of the Internet in Learning and Education: Broadening the Disciplinary Landscape of Research -- PART IV: COMMUNICATION, POWER, AND INFLUENCE IN A CONVERGING MEDIA WORLD -- 17. Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet -- 18. Tradition and Transformation in Online News Production and Consumption -- 19. The Internet in Campaigns and Elections -- 20. The Internet and Democracy -- PART V: GOVERNING AND REGULATING THE INTERNET -- 21. Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions -- 22. Cultural, Legal, Technical, and Economic Perspectives on Copyright Online: The Case of the Music Industry.
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