This critical reader of original essays places the boom and bust years of the Internet in a
broad cultural context. Exploring the world of html, web browsers, cookies, online net guides …

Abstract The Handbook of Internet Studies brings together scholars from a variety of fields to
explore the profound shift that has occurred in how we communicate and experience our …

In recent years, the story of the internet, a decentralised, global communications network
mediated by the conjunction of computers and telecommunications, has been retold often …

An examination of the social impact of the Internet, this volume explores political, social,
technical, legal, and economic controversies in a manner accessible to the general reader …

Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary
fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been …

The Web has been with us for less than a decade. The popular and commercial diffusion of
the Internet has been extraordinary-instigating and enabling changes in virtually every area …

Introduction: What is â•œInternet Studiesâ•š? Page 1 Introduction: What is “Internet Studies”?
Charles Ess and Mia Consalvo The project of saying what something is may helpfully begin …

Whether or not one believes the hyperbolic claims about the Internet being the biggest thing
since the invention of the wheel, the Internet is a medium with great consequences for social …

This handbook chapter is an essay supporting an engaged field called critical internet
studies. It attempts to describe internet studies and critical internet studies, empowering the …

By evaluating the Internet's impact on key cultural issues of the day, this book provides a
comprehensive overview of the seismic technological and cultural shifts the Internet has …