Includes bibliographical references and index.

What is internet studies? / Charles Ess, Mia Consalvo -- Beyond the great divides? a primer on internet histories, methods, and ethics. Part introduction / Charles Ess -- Studying the internet through the ages / Barry Wellman -- Web archiving: between past, present, and future / Niels Brugger -- New media, old methods -- Internet methodologies and the online/offline divide / Klaus Bruhn Jensen -- The internet in everyday life: exploring the tenets and contributions of diverse approaches / Maria Bakardjieva -- Internet research ethics: past, present, and future / Elizabeth A Buchanan -- Shaping daily life: the internet and society. Part introduction / Mia Consalvo -- Assessing the internet's impact on language / Naomi S Baron -- Internet policy / Sandra Braman -- Political discussion online / Jennifer Stromer-Galley, Alexis Wichowski -- Does the internet empower? a look at the internet and international development / Deborah L Wheeler -- Internet and health communication / Lorna Heaton -- Internet and religion / Heidi Campbell -- Indigenous peoples on the internet / Laurel Dyson -- Queering internet studies: intersections of gender and sexuality / Janne Bromseth, Jenny Sunďn -- Internet and culture. Part introduction / Mia Consalvo -- Community and the internet / Lori Kendall -- Moos to mmos: the internet and virtual worlds / Mia Consalvo -- Internet, children, and youth / Sonia Livingstone -- Internet and games / T L Taylor -- Social networks 2.0 / Nancy K Baym -- Newly mediated media: understanding the changing internet landscape of the media industries / P David Marshall -- Online pornography: ubiquitous and effaced / Susanna Paasonen -- Music and the internet / Steve Jones -- Why and how online sociability became part and parcel of teenage life / Marika Luders -- Index.

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