Second International Handbook of Internet Research 2020 Edition Contributor(s): Hunsinger, Jeremy (Editor), Allen, Matthew M. (Editor), Klastrup, Lisbeth (Editor) |
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ISBN: 940241553X ISBN-13: 9789402415537 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $569.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Computers | Social Aspects - Social Science | Sociology - General |
Dewey: 004 |
Physical Information: 1066 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 mode of 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. |