[artinfo] international Handbook of internet research

[jeremy hunsinger]

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 Bit's 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: Deleuze's 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 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.

(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

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I am always doing that which I can not do, in 
order that I may learn how to do it.
-Pablo Picasso