Oxford handbook of Internet studies

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Internet studies : the foundations of a transformative field / William H. Dutton -- part 1. Perspectives on the Internet and Web as objects of study. 2. The prehistory of the Internet and its traces in the present / Martin C.J. Elton and John Carey ; 3. Web science / Kieron O'Hara and Wendy Hall ; 4. Society on the Web / Mike Thelwall ; 5. The Internet as infrastructure / Christian Sandvig -- part 2. Living in a network society. 6. Network societies and Internet studies / Jack Linchuan Qiu ; 7. Digital inequality / Eszter Hargittai and Yuli Patrick Hsieh ; 8. Sociality through social network sites / Nicole B. Ellison and Danah M. Boyd ; 9. The study of online relationships and dating / Barrie Gunter ; 10. Games, online and off / Dmitri Williams and Adam S. Kahn ; 11. Cross-national comparative perspectives from the World Internet Project / Gustavo Cardoso, Guo Liang, and Tiago Lapa -- part 3. Creating and working in a global network economy. 12. New businesses and new business models / Michael A. Cusumano and Andreas Goeldi ; 13. Trust in commercial and personal transactions in the digital age / Regina Connolly ; 14. Government and the Internet / Paul Henman ; 15. Digital transformations of scholarship and knowledge / Eric T. Meyer and Ralph Schroeder ; 16. Studies of the Internet in learning and education / Chris Davies and Rebecca Eynon -- part 4. Communication, power, and influence in a convergin media world. 17. Theoretical perspectives in the study of communication and the Internet / Ronald E. Rice and Ryan P. Fuller ; 18. Tradition and transformation in online news production and consumption / Eugenia Mitchelstein and Pablo J. Boczkowski ; 19. The Internet in campaigns and elections / Darren G. Lilleker and Thierry Vedel ; 20. The Internet and democracy / Helen Margetts -- part 5. Governing and regulating the Internet. 21. Analyzing freedom of expression online / Victoria Nash ; 22. Cultural, legal, technical, and economic perspectives on copyright online / Matthew David ; 23. Privacy and surveillance / Colin J. Bennett and Christopher Parsons ; 24. Digital infrastructures, economies, and public policies / Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller ; 25. The Internet and development / Tim Unwin ; 26. The emerging field of Internet governance / Laura DeNardis.