Second International Handbook of Internet Research

1. Science and Medicine on YouTube

   • Joachim Allgaier

2. Spatial Analysis Meets Internet Research

   • Marco T. Bastos

3. Big Social Data Approaches in Internet Studies: The Case of Twitter

   • Axel Bruns

4. How Computer Networks Became Social

   • Chris Chesher

5. Critical Internet Studies

   • Jeremy Hunsinger

6. Researching Affordances

   • Aske Kammer

7. An Obscure Object of Communicational Desire: The Untold Story of Online Chat

   • Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Maxigas

8. Online Field Theory

   • Mathieu O’Neil, Robert Ackland

9. Research Programs as a Tool to Map Internet Studies

   • Håkan Selg

10. Paradoxes of the Cyber Party: The Changing Organizational Design of the British Labour Party

    • Emmanuelle Avril

11. Big Data Approaches to the Study of Digital Media

    • Ralph Schroeder, Josh Cowls

12. Legislating for Internet “access”-ability

    • Lucy M. Cradduck

13. Blended Data: Critiquing and Complementing Social Media Datasets, Big and Small

    • sky croeser, Tim Highfield

14. Big Capta?

    • Jeremy Hunsinger

15. Lifelogging: Recording Life Patterns Tied to Daily Internet Usage

    • Chen-Yi Yu, Ji-Lung Hsieh

16. Nexus Analysis as a Framework for Internet Studies

    • Malene Charlotte Larsen, Pirkko Raudaskoski

17. Deep Data: Analyzing Power and Influence in Social Media Networks

    • Fiona Martin, Jonathon Hutchinson

18. Convergence, Internet, and Net Neutrality Policy: What the Future Holds for the Internet and Online Content

    • Kruakae Pothong

19. The Future of Crowdsourcing Through Games

    • Karen Schrier

20. Today’s Internet for Tomorrow’s Cities: On Algorithmic Culture and Urban Imaginaries

    • Marcus Foth, Peta Mitchell, Carlos Estrada-Grajales

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 modeof 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.

• citizen journalism
• cyberinfrastructures
• digital copyright
• information infrastructure
• internet aesthetics
• internet privacy
• internet security
• network sociality
• online activism
• virtual worlds
• visual iconic patterns
• web content analysis
• web search engines

• Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada

  Jeremy Hunsinger

• Bldg. 209, 3rd Floor, Curtin University, Bentley, Australia

  Matthew M. Allen

• IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

  Lisbeth Klastrup

Jeremy Hunsinger is an Associate Professor in Communication Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. He holds a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech where he co-directed the Center for Digital Discourse and Culture.He was co-editor of the journal Learning Inquiry and has published in FastCapitalism, The Information Society, Social Epistemology and other leading academic journals. He recently also co-edited a special issue on The Democratization of Hacking and Making. He also co-edited the International Handbook of Virtual Learning Environments and the International Handbook of Internet Research and has edited or contributed to several other volumes.

Lisbeth Klastrup is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Her research areas include social media use, digital culture and transmedial worlds. She has published numerous articles and book chapters within the field, and was co-editor of the first Danish book on digital media analysis.She co-edited the first International Handbook of Internet Research. She is author of Sociale Netværksmedier (Social Network Media), 2016. She often appears as digital media expert in the Danish news media. 

Matthew Allen is Professor of Internet Studies at Deakin University. His research focuses on the meaning and cultural reception of digital media technologies, particularly as they become part of our historical cons

ciousness. He is also a leader in online education, with a national teaching award. He co-edited the first International Handbook of Internet Research, has more than 50 papers and articles, including several that describe the key moment in the transformation of the Internet and media through the emergence of Web 2.0.

 

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