Internet Research Annual: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences 2000-2002, Volume 1Mia Consalvo, Nancy Baym, Jeremy Hunsinger, Klaus Bruhn Jensen Internet Research Annual offers a selection of the best work presented at the first three conferences of the Association of Internet Researchers, and provides a useful overview of the cutting-edge in Internet studies. Established scholars and new researchers address issues such as communities on/off line, the Internet as a methodological tool and space for research, and the places, politics, and policies of the Internet, creating a volume that comprehensively covers the field of Internet research. Also included are a brief history of the organization, a list of previously published papers from the conferences, and works by several of the keynote speakers including Phil Agre, Barbara Warnick, Bill Dutton, Sheizaf Rafaeli, Susan Herring, Robin Mansell, and much more. |
Contents
There and Back Again | 1 |
Cyberscience Methodology and Research Substance | 7 |
THE INTERNET AS AN AREA | 13 |
2 | 20 |
Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Argument | 37 |
13 | 44 |
5 | 54 |
6 | 65 |
PALFREYMAN | 150 |
15 | 156 |
Policy Practice | 166 |
ROBIN MANSELL | 175 |
New Media and the Market for Political | 185 |
NETWORKING | 193 |
20 | 200 |
Newsgroup Interaction as Urban Life | 216 |
NENTWICH | 77 |
on Academic Research Paradigms | 86 |
Ethics as an Exercise in Open Source Ethics | 95 |
PLACES POLITICS AND POLICIES | 105 |
11 | 118 |
GITTE STALD | 129 |
Questing | 141 |
Empowerment and Consumerism on the | 224 |
23 | 231 |
Social Survey | 241 |
The Consequences of ComputerMediated Communication | 250 |
Constructing the User and Community | 260 |
List of Contributors | 269 |
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