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Author:   William H. Dutton (Professor of Internet Studies, Professor of Internet Studies, University of Oxford, and Fellow of Balliol College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   1.258kg
ISBN:  

9780199589074

ISBN 10:   0199589070
Pages:   628
Publication Date:   10 January 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: William H. Dutton: Internet Studies Part I. Perspectives on the Internet and Web as Objects of Study 2: Martin C. J. Elton and John Carey: The Prehistory of the Internet and Its Traces in the Present: Implications for Defining the Field 3: Kieron O Hara and Wendy Hall: Web Science 4: Michael Thelwall: Society on the Web 5: Christian Sandvig: The Internet as an Infrastructure Part II. Living in a Network Society 6: Jack Linchuan Qiu: Network Societies and Internet Studies: Rethinking Time, Space, and Class 7: Eszter Hargittai and Yuli Patrick Hsieh: Digital Inequality 8: Nicole B. Ellison and danah m. boyd: Sociality through Social Network Sites 9: Barrie Gunter: The Study of Online Relationships and Dating 10: Dmitri Williams and Adam S. Kahn: Games, Online and Off 11: Gustavo Cardozo, Guo Liang, and Tiago Lapa: Cross-National Comparative Perspectives from the World Internet Project Part III. Creating and Working in a Global Network Economy 12: Michael A. Cusumano and Andreas Goeldi: New Businesses and New Business Models 13: Regina Connolly: Trust in Commercial and Personal Transactions in the Digital Age 14: Paul Henman: Government and the Internet e-Government 15: Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder: Digital Transformations of Scholarship and Knowledge 16: Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon: 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: Ronald E. Rice and Ryan Fuller: Theoretical Perspectives in the Study of Communication and the Internet 18: Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski: Tradition and Transformation in Online News Production and Consumption 19: Darren G. Lilleker and Thierry Vedel: The Internet in Campaigns and Elections 20: Helen Margetts: Democracy and the Internet Part V. Governing and Regulating the Internet 21: Victoria Nash: Analysing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions 22: Matthew David: File-Sharing and Beyond: Cultural, Legal, Technical and Economic Perspectives on the Future of Copyright Online 23: Colin J. Bennett and Christopher Parsons: Privacy and Surveillance: The Multi-Disciplinary Literature on the Capture, Use, and Disclosure of Personal information in Cyberspace 24: Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller: Digital Infrastructures, Economies, and Public Policies: Contending Rationales and Outcome Assessment Strategies 25: Tim Unwin: The Internet and Development 26: Laura DeNardis: The Emerging Field of Internet Governance

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In this ever-extending frame, iThe Oxford Handbook of Internet Studiesr aims to provide an authoritative synthesis and critical assessment of the research in this emerging area of scholarship. Monika Zalnieriute, Computer Law and Security Review

In this ever-extending frame, ^iThe Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies^r aims to provide an authoritative synthesis and critical assessment of the research in this emerging area of scholarship. * Monika Zalnieriute, Computer Law and Security Review *

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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).

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