The Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we communicate and experience our world as we have moved from the industrial era into the age of digital media.

Informationen zum Autor Robert Burnett is Professor and Research Chair of Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, Sweden. He is the author of Concentration and Diversity in the International Phonogram Industry (Gothenburg 1990), The Global Jukebox: The International Music Industry (Routledge 1996), Web Theory: an Introduction (Routledge 2003), and co-editor of Perspectives on Multimedia: Communication, Media and Information Technology (Wiley 2004). He has been a visiting professor in Australia, Canada, Italy, Norway, Scotland, U.S.A. and Zimbabwe Mia Consalvo is an Associate Professor in the School of Telecommunications at Ohio University. She is the author of Cheating: Gaining Advantage in Videogames (MIT Press, forthcoming), and was executive editor of the Association of Internet Researchers' Research Annual series. She has also edited the volume Women and Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency and Identity with Susanna Paasonen. Her research focuses on cheating and games, and the hybrid character of the global games industry. Charles Ess is Distinguished Research Professor, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Professor of Philosophy and Religion, Drury University, Springfield, Missouri, USA. He has published extensively, both as an author and as an editor, in various domains of research on computer-mediated communication, including cultural dimensions (Culture, Technology, Communication: Towards an Intercultural Global Village (SUNY Press, 2001) and several special issues of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication), religious dimensions, and ethical dimensions. Currently Vice-President of the Association of Internet Researchers, he will become President in October, 2007, with primary responsibilities for organizing the AoIR annual conferences in 2007 and 2008. He has served as a guest professor at IT-University (Copenhagen, Denmark) and the University of Trier (Germany): he will further serve as a guest professor at the University of Nîmes (France) and Aarhus University (Denmark) in 2007. Klappentext The Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we communicate and experience our world as we have moved from the industrial era into the age of digital media. Presents a wide range of original essays by established scholars in everything from online ethics to ways in which indiginous peoples now use the Internet Looks at the role of the internet in modern societies, and the continuing development of internet studies as an academic field Explores Internet studies through history, society, culture, and the future of online media Provides introductory frameworks to ground and orientate the student, while also providing more experienced scholars with a convenient and comprehensive overview of the latest trends and critical directions in the many areas of Internet research Zusammenfassung The Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we communicate and experience our world as we have moved from the industrial era into the age of digital media. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsNotes on Editors and ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Charles Ess and Mia ConsalvoPart I: Beyond the Great Divides? A Primer on Internet Histories, Methods, and EthicsPart II: Shaping Daily Life: The Internet and SocietyPart III: Internet and CultureIndex...

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Contents Notes on Editors and Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Charles Ess and Mia Consalvo Part I: Beyond the Great Divides? A Primer on Internet Histories, Methods, and Ethics Part II: Shaping Daily Life: The Internet and Society Part III: Internet and Culture Index