This peer-reviewed collection represents some of the finest research presented at the 2004 Association of Internet Researchers Conference held in Sussex in 2004. Responding to the theme of ubiquity, papers collected here represent a diverse range of inquiries into the development, as well as perceived development, of the Internet. Offering new and important work about blogs, online games, users, norms and access, to name just a few topics, this collection is a must-read for Internet scholars intent on keeping pace with a rapidly expanding field.

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The Editors: Mia Consalvo is Associate Professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. She is the executive editor of the AoIR Internet Research Annual series, and she has also edited the volume Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency and Identity (Lang, 2002) with Susanna Paasonen. She is currently writing a book on the role of cheating in the digital game industry.
Kate O'Riordan is a researcher seconded to CESAGen for three years to work on the 'Meaning of Genomics' project. She was seconded from the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of Sussex where she is a Lecturer in Media Studies. Her research and publication background is in digital media and internet research, and she has published on research ethics in this field. Previous research has included work on representations of gendered bodies, technologies, sexualities and queer theory across a range of sites.

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Contents: Kate O'Riordan/Mia Consalvo: Internet Research: Questioning Ubiquity Anoush Simon: Perceptions of Access and Exclusion in the Information Society Claudijo Borovic/Daniel Pargman: Learning in Online Computer Games: The Emergence of In-Game Academies Caroline Haythornthwaite/Susan Shoemaker: Minding Your Practices: Exposure and Anonymity in Social Network Data Jennifer Kurkoski: Infusion of Responsibility Effects in Email Requests for Information: A Pilot Study Stine Gotved: Ubiquity Double Up - Time in Cybersocial Communication Lena Karlsson: We're Still Connected in a One-Sided Sort of Way: Acts of Reading Personal Journal-Type Weblogs Jill Walker: Distributed Narrative: Telling Stories Across Networks Denise N. Rall: Exploring the Range of Disciplinary Backgrounds of Internet Scholars Participating in AoIR Meetings, 2000-2002 Richard Collins: Internet Governance in the UK Mark Gaved/Paul Mulholland: Ubiquity from the Bottom Up: Grassroots Initiated Networked Communities Tamara Witschge: Normativity Online: Facing the Boundaries of the Boundless World Wide Web Alison Norris: Information-Based Websites: A Usability Assessment of a Library Website.