This book explores the impact of the Internet on scholarly research across and beyond the social sciences. The contributors leading figures in a broad spectrum of disciplines explain how their fields of inquiry are being redefined, and what issues of social change are salient as new information technologies increasingly become the subject of scholarly analysis. They have rendered a conceptual photograph of how their disciplines are coping with the impact of information technology by covering policy approaches, empirical research, and theoretical questions. Academy & the Internet highlights significant zones of inquiry and provides a critical perspective on the direction each discipline is traveling.

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The Editors: Helen Nissenbaum is Associate Professor in the Departments of Culture and Communication and Computer Science, and a Senior Fellow of the Information Law Institute, New York University. She is author of Emotion and Focus; co-editor (with D.J. Johnson) of Computers, Ethics and Social Values; and a co-founding editor of the journal Ethics and Information Technology.
Monroe E. Price is Professor of Law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University. He is the director of the Stanhope Centre for Communications Policy Research in London, as well as the founding director of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy at the University of Oxford. Dr. Price is the author of Media and Sovereignty: The Global Information Revolution and its Challenge to State Power; Television, Public Sphere and National Identity; and co-editor (with Roger Noll) of the Communications Cornucopia.

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Contents: Helen Nissenbaum/Monroe E. Price: Introduction Roy Rosenzweig: How Will the Net's History Be Written? Historians and the Internet Paul DiMaggio/Eszter Hargittai/W. Russell Neuman/John P. Robinson: Social Implications of the Internet Daniel Miller/Don Slater/Lucy Suchman: Antropology Doris A. Graber/Bruce Bimber/ W. Lance Bennett/Richard Davis/Pippa Norris: The Internet and Politics: Emerging Perspectives Paul A. David: Economists and the Net: Problems of Policy for a Telecommunications Anomaly Deborah G. Johnson: Computer Ethics Nicholas W. Jankowski/Kirsten Foot/ Philip N. Howard/Steve Jones/Robin Mansell/Steve Schneider/Roger Silverstone: The Internet and Communiction Studies Mette Hjort: Aesthetic Approaches to the Internet and New Media Viktor Mayer-Schönberger: Cyberlaw Discourses: An Analytic Framework Niva Elkin-Koren: The Internet and Copyright Policy Discourse Jack Linchuan Qiu/Joseph Man Chan: China Internet Studies: A Review of the Field Christian Sandvig/Stefaan Verhulst: Internet and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective.