Distribute as appropriate-jh ---------- 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 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