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[ecrea] international Handbook of internet research

Fri Aug 27 22:43:54 GMT 2010


>International Handbook of Internet Research
>http://www.springer.com/computer/general+issues/book/978-1-4020-9788-1
>
>Edited by Jeremy Hunsinger, Lisbeth Klastrup, and Matthew Allen
>
>Over 600 pages
>With co/authors from: Africa, Asia,  Australia, 
>Europe, India, North America, South America
> From a wide variety of fields and perspectives.
>
>Contents:
>
>Forward:
>The New Media, the New Meanwhile, and the Same Old Stories
>Steve Jones
>
>Introduction
>Jeremy Hunsinger and Matt Allen
>
>Are Instant Messages Speech?
>Naomi S. Baron
>
> From MUDs to MMORPGs: The History of Virtual Worlds
>Richard A. Bartle
>
>Visual Iconic Patterns of Instant Messaging: 
>Steps Towards Understanding Visual Conversations
>Hillary Bays
>
>Research in e-Science and Open Access to Data and Information
>Matthijs den Besten, Paul A. David, and Ralph Schroeder
>
>Toward Information Infrastructure Studies: Ways 
>of Knowing in a Networked Environment
>Geoffrey C. Bowker, Karen Baker, Florence Millerand, and David Ribes
>
> From Reader to Writer: Citizen Journalism as News Produsage
>Axel Bruns
>
>The Mereology of Digital Copyright
>Dan L. Burk
>
>Traversing Urban Social Spaces: How Online 
>Research Helps Unveil Offline Practice
>Julie-Anne Carroll, Marcus Foth, and Barbara Adkins
>
>Internet Aesthetics
>Sean Cubitt
>
>Internet Sexualities
>Nicola Döring
>
>After Convergence: YouTube and Remix Culture
>Anders Fagerjord
>
>The Internet in Latin America
>Suely Fragoso and Alberto Efendy Maldonado
>
>Campaigning in a Changing Information 
>Environment: The Anti-war and Peace Movement in Britain
>Kevin Gillan, Jenny Pickerill, and Frank Webster
>
>Web Content Analysis: Expanding the Paradigm
>Susan C. Herring
>
>The Regulatory Framework for Privacy and Security
>Janine S. Hiller
>
>Toward Nomadological Cyberinfrastructures
>Jeremy Hunsinger
>
>Toward a Virtual Town Square in the Era of Web 2.0
>Andrea Kavanaugh, Manuel A. Perez-Quinones, John 
>C. Tedesco, and William Sanders
>
>The Legal Bits in Russian: Making Sense of Downloaded Music
>Marjorie D. Kibby
>
>Understanding Online (Game)worlds
>Lisbeth Klastrup
>
>Strategy and Structure for Online News 
>Production ­ Case Studies of CNN and NRK
>Arne H. Krumsvik
>
>Political Economy, the Internet and FL/OSS Development
>Robin Mansell and Evangelia Berdou
>
>Intercreativity: Mapping Online Activism
>Graham Meikle
>
>Internet Reagency: The Implications of a Global 
>Science for Collaboration, Productivity, and 
>Gender Inequity in Less Developed Areas
>B. Paige Miller, Ricardo Duque, Meredith 
>Anderson, Marcus Antonius Ynalvez, Antony 
>Palackal, Dan-Bright S. Dzorgbo, Paul N. Mbatia, and Wesley Shrum
>
>Strangers and Friends: Collaborative Play in World of Warcraft
>Bonnie Nardi and Justin Harris
>
>Trouble with the Commercial: Internets Theorized and Used
>Susanna Paasonen
>
>(Dis)Connected: Deleuzes Superject and the Internet
>David Savat
>
>Language Deterioration Revisited: The Extent and 
>Function of English Content in a Swedish Chat Room
>Malin Sveningsson Elm
>
>Visual Communication in Web Design ­ Analyzing 
>Visual Communication in Web Design
>Lisbeth Thorlacius
>
>Feral Hypertext: When Hypertext Literature Escapes Control
>Jill Walker Rettberg
>
>The Possibilities of Network Sociality
>Michele Willson
>
>Web Search Studies: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Web Search Engines
>Michael Zimmer
>
>Appendix A: Degree Programs
>Appendix B: Major Research Centers and Institutes
>
>as described on the backmatter:
>
>This handbook, the first of its kind, is a 
>detailed introduction to the numerous academic 
>perspectives we can 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 todays 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.
>
>(I don't know if it was the first of the kind 
>published, but I think it was the first done this way -jh)
>
>Jeremy Hunsinger
>Center for Digital Discourse and Culture
>Virginia Tech
>
>http://www.stswiki.org/  sts wiki
>http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ 
>Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series
>
>I am always doing that which I can not do, in 
>order that I may learn how to do it.
>-Pablo Picasso




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