Drawing on disciplines throughout the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities, Internet Studies explores Internet-facilitated human (and machine) communication with characteristic (but not exclusive) focus on how identity, agency, relationship, community, and power interact with the affordances of Internet-based communication technologies, often with a careful view towards larger ethical, social, political, cultural, economic, legal, and other human contexts. Internet Studies further includes meta-theoretical development and refinement of various research methodologies; specific attention to the ethical challenges and possible resolutions to these challenges that arise in the course of such research; and the histories of the Internet, including web history as a domain in its own right.
This is awesome, Charles! I'll keep looking at it to see if there's anything to add - i'm thinking that cultural influences on 'internet culture' might be something to consider. Andre Brock Assistant Professor - Communication Studies University of Michigan