Internet Research: There and Back Again

Mia Consalvo

Imagining an Association

Steve Jones

SECTION ONE: THE INTERNET AS AN AREA OF RESEARCH

Klaus Bruhn Jensen

Monica Murero

Legal Consequences of the Cyberspatial Metaphor

Dan L. Burk

Internet Research: For and Against

Philip E. Agre

Dangerous Futures: Artificial Intelligence and Scientific Argument

Barbara Warnick

Out of the Dot-com Bubble: A New Opportunity for Internet Research

William H. Dutton

Constructs in the Storm

Sheizaf Rafaeli

Online Communication: Through the Lens of Discourse

Susan C. Herring

Cyberscience, Methodology, and Research Substance

Michael Nentwich

The Effects of New Communication and Information Technologies on Academic Research Paradigms

Irene Berkowitz

The Cathedral or the Bazaar? The AoIR Document on Internet Research Ethics as an Exercise in Open Source Ethics

Charles Ess

SECTION TWO: PLACES, POLITICS, AND POLICIES OF THE INTERNET

Nancy Baym

Jeremy Hunsinger

``Imagine'': A Structural Analysis of the Use of the Internet by Households in Four European Towns

Alain D'Iribarne

Musical Taste and Sociability: Evidence from Survey2000

James Witte

John Ryan

Global Reach, Local Roots: Young Danes and the Internet

Gitte Stald

Questing on the Global Stage: Brain Gain, Market Gain, and the Rhetoric of the Internet in German and U.S. Higher Education Policy

Doreen Starke-Meyerring

Learning to Use ICTs in a Gulf Arab Context

David Palfreyman

Virtual Consumption: The Commercial Discourse of the Web

Karen Gustafson

Redlining and Redefining High-Speed Internet Access: Policy, Practice, and Patchwork in Urban Development

Christopher Bodnar

The Internet, Capitalism, and Policy

Robin Mansell

Spiders, Spam, and Spyware: New Media and the Market for Political Information

Philip N. Howard

Tema J. Milstein

SECTION THREE: NET / WORKING COMMUNITIES

John Logie

Leslie Regan Shade

Virtual Otherness: An Example of In-Group and Out-Group Online Interaction in Yugoslavia During the NATO Bombing

Smiljana Antonijevic

Because It's Important and Out There: From Real-Life Identity to Virtual Ethnicities

Nils Zurawski

Newsgroup Interaction as Urban Life

Stine Gotved

Community as Commodity: Empowerment and Consumerism on the Web

Jan Fernback

Just Do It! The Online Communication of Breast Cancer as a Practice of Empowerment

Shani Orgad

The Internet's ``Magnifying Glass'' Effect on Offline Ties in the General Social Survey

Sorin Adam Matei

Talking in Lists: The Consequences of Computer-Mediated Communication on Communities

Andrea Kavanaugh

Joseph Schmitz

The Social Design of Virtual Worlds: Constructing the User and Community through Code

T. L. Taylor

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