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 …

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 …

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Charles Ess and Mia Consalvo The project of saying what something is may helpfully begin …

In technological terms, the story of the internet–a decentralized, global communications
network mediated by the convergence of information, computing and telecommunications …

This is the introductory chapter of The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies (OUP 2013). The
chapter provides an overview of the rise of Internet Studies, the scope of this field, and …

With the Second International Handbook of Internet Research, we have brought together a
diverse series of papers that highlight elements of the still-growing field of internet studies …

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 …

The internet is changing the world. Each day, more of us are using, and learning from, the
giant global library that is the world-wide web. But not everyone in Britain is able or willing to …

This book considers the lessons learnt so far from the emergence of the Internet and the
development of the field of Internet studies, whilst also considering possible directions for …

The Internet in everyday life is a newly emergent continent on the map of Internet research
that has not been properly explored and charted yet. At the same time, its contours and …