Dear AIRers: Over the last couple of years a number of scholars have been working with data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. These collaborators have contributed some of the fruit of their research to a collected edited by Steve Jones and myself, called Society Online: The Internet in Context. We began calling for contributions at AIR 2.0 in Minnesota, and are happy to announce that the collection is ready in time for AIR 4.0 in Toronto. The collection takes a 'spheres of life' approach to organizing the findings of the scholarship (community, politics, economics, culture, global & personal contexts), so it is ideal for senior undergrad classes or as an intro for grads looking to build a reference list on particular themes. Check out the big display that Sage will have at our meeting next week, there may be extra display copies. Many of the contributors will be at the meeting if you want to interrogate them about their work. The odd capitalizations in David Silver's title are not typos, he did that deliberately. See you soon! Phil Philip N. Howard Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Washington http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/ Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones, Editors, Society Online: The Internet in Context (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage) http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/aboutsocietyonline.html CONTENTS Foreword (Rainie) / Prologue: The Case for Multi-method Research: Large Sample Design and the Study of Life Online (Witte) / Embedded Media: Who We Know, What We Know, and Society Online (Howard). SOCIAL CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, AND CONTENT - The Bridging and Bonding Role of Online Communities (Norris) / Deeper Understanding, Deeper Ties: Taking Faith Online (Larson) / Bending Gender Into the Net: Feminizing Content, Corporate Interests, and Research Strategy (Shade) / Interrogating the Digital Divide: The Political Economy of Race and Commerce in New Media (Nakamura). WIRED NEWS AND POLITICS ONLINE - Will Internet Voting Increase Turnout? An Analysis of Voter Preference (Stromer-Galley) / The Internet and Political Involvement in 1996 and 2000 (Rice and Katz) / New Media, Internet News, and the News Habit (Dessauer) / Crisis Communication and New Media: The Web After September 11 (Schneider and Foot). ECONOMIC LIFE ONLINE - ‘sHoP onLiNE!’: Advertising Female Teen Cyberculture (Silver and Garland) / Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the Internet Era (Neff and Stark) / Art Versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of Web Design Skills (Kotamraju). CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION ONLINE - Wired and Well Read (Griswold and Wright) / The Disembodied Muse: Music in the Internet Age (Peterson and Ryan) / Technology and Tolerance: Public Opinion Differences Among Internet Users and Nonusers (Robinson, Neustadtl, and Kestnbaum). PERSONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS OF LIFE ONLINE - Informed Web Surfing: The Social Context of User Sophistication (Hargittai) / American Internet Users and Privacy: A Safe Harbor of Their Own? (Starke-Meyerring, Burk, and Gurak) / Sited Materialities With Global Span (Sassen) / The Future of the Internet: Cultural and Individual Conceptions (Bainbridge) / Conclusion: Contexting the Network (Jones).