Foundations: Affect and the Expression of Emotions on the Internet: An Overview of Current Research -- An Obscure Object of Communicational Desire: The Untold Story of Online Chat -- Big Social Data Approaches in Internet Studies: The Case of Twitter -- Collaboration Between Social Sciences and Computer Science: Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Methodology for Studying Big Social Data from Online Communities -- Critical Internet Studies -- Digital Activism Within Post-Fordism: Interventions Between Assimilation and Exclusion -- Digital Folklore -- Historical Web as a Tool for Analyzing Social Change -- How Computer Networks Became Social -- Lessons from Internet Art About Life with the Internet -- Networks of Change: The Sociology of Network Media -- After networks: A theory of online fields -- Researching Affordances -- Research Programs as a Tool to Map Internet Studies -- Science and Medicine on YouTube -- Spatial Analysis Meets Internet Research -- Combating the Live-Streaming of Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation: A Need for New Legislation -- What Media Logics Can Tell Us About the Internet?- Introduction – Foundations -- Telephone Interviewing as a Qualitative Methodology for Researching Cyberinfrastructure and Virtual Organizations -- Degree Programs in Internet Studies or Internet Research -- Research Ethics, Vulnerability, and Trust on the Internet -- Logics and Legacy of Anonymous -- Feminized Digital Sociality and Online Philanthropy -- Research Centers or Institutes in Internet Research or Internet Studies. Futures: Introduction -- Blended Data: Critiquing and Complementing Social Media Datasets, Big and Small -- Big Data Approaches to the Study of Digital Media -- Big Capta?- Constitutive Surveillance and Social Media -- Convergence, Internet, and Net Neutrality Policy: What the Future Holds for the Internet and Online Content -- Cryptographic Media -- Deep Data: Analyzing Power and Influence in Social Media Networks -- Digitally Researching Islam -- Disguised Propaganda from Digital to Social Media -- Ethics of Social Media Research: State of the Debate and Future Challenges -- The Future of Crowdsourcing Through Games -- Fuzzy Limits: Researching Discourse in the Internet with Corpora -- How to Compare Different Social Media: A Conceptual and Technical Framework -- Legislating for Internet “access”-ability -- New Media, Religion, and Politics: A Comparative Investigation into the Dialogue between the Religious and the Secular in France and in Vietnam -- Nexus Analysis as a Framework for Internet Studies -- Lifelogging: Recording Life Patterns Tied to Daily Internet Usage -- Paradoxes of the Cyber Party: The Changing Organizational Design of the British Labour Party -- Smart Contracts as Evidence: Trust, Records, and the Future of Decentralized Transactions -- Affective Flux of Feminist Digital Collectives, or What Happened to the Women’s March of 2017 -- Today’s Internet for Tomorrow’s Cities: On Algorithmic Culture and Urban Imaginaries This Handbook is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives that apply to the study of the internet as a political, social and communicative phenomenon. Covering both practical and theoretical angles, established researchers from around the world discuss everything: the foundations of internet research appear alongside chapters on understanding and analyzing current examples of online activities and artifacts. The material covers all continents and explores in depth subjects such as networked gaming, economics and the law. The sheer scope and breadth of topics examined in this volume, which ranges from on-line communities to e-science via digital aesthetics, are evidence that in today’s world, internet research is a vibrant and mature field in which practitioners have long since stopped considering the internet as either an utopian or dystopian "new" space, but instead approach it as a medium that has become an integral part of our everyday culture and a natural mode of communication. This Second International Handbook of Internet Research is an updated version of the first International Handbook of Internet Research that came out in 2010. Since then, the field has changed, and this new version retains a number of the key updated chapters from the first handbook, as well as completely new chapters |