Internet studies
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Internet studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social, psychological, political, technical, cultural and other dimensions of
While studies of the Internet are now widespread across academic disciplines, there is a growing collaboration among these investigations. In recent years, Internet studies have become institutionalized as courses of study at several institutions of
Internet and society is a research field that addresses the interrelationship of Internet and society, i.e. how society has changed the Internet and how the Internet has changed society.[5]
The topic of social issues relating to Internet has become notable since the rise of the World Wide Web, which can be observed from the fact that journals and newspapers run many stories on topics such as
Topics of study
In recent years, Internet studies have become institutionalized as courses of study, and even separate departments, at many institutions of higher learning.[6][7]
Disciplines that contribute to Internet studies include:
- e-mail, social media, MMORPGs, online chat, blogs, and text messaging in communication processes.[8]
- Digital rights: including privacy, free speech, intellectual property, and digital rights management.[9]
- Digital labor and the "gig economy".
- .
- digital music.
- Internet linguistics: the study of language on the Internet, including slang.
- firewalls.
- Open source software: focusing on the ability of Internet users to collaborate to modify, develop, and improve pieces of software which are freely available to the public without charge.
- Science and technology studies: how and why we have the digital technologies we have, and how society shapes their development.
- Internet and social media use in politics: including its use for mobilizing political campaigns and protests.[12]
- Web archiving and the history of the Internet: preservation of the objects of study, and focusing on the development of the Internet over time.[10]
Key journals
A number of academic journals are central to communicating research in the field, including Bad Subjects, Convergence, CTheory, Cyber Psychology & Behaviour, Computers in Human Behavior,[13] First Monday, Information, Communication & Society,[14] The Information Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication,[14] M/C Journal, New Media & Society,[14] Social Science Computer Review,[15] tripleC, Fibreculture Journal,[16] and TeknoKultura.[17] However, research relating to internet studies appears in a diverse range of venues and disciplines.
History
During the 1990s, the rapid diffusion of Internet access began to attract more attention from a number of social science and humanities disciplines, including the field of communication.[22] Some of these investigations, like the Pew Internet & American Life project[23][24] and the World Internet Project[25][24] framed the research in terms of traditional social science approaches, with a focus less on the technology than on those who use them. But the focus remained at the aggregate level. In the UK, the ESRC Programme on Information and Communications Technologies (1986–1996)[26] laid considerable ground work on how society and ICTs interact, bringing together important clusters of scholars from media and communications, society, innovation, law, policy and industry across leading UK universities.
In 1996, this interest was expressed in other ways as well.
Scholarly organizations
- American Society for Information Science and Technology(ASIST)
- American Sociological Association, Section on Communication and Information Technologies (CITASA)
- Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)[30]
- Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Communication & Technology Division (CTEC)
- Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
- European Association for the Study of Science and Technology(EASST)
- European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) Internet & Politics Standing Group (SG)
- International Communication Association Communication & Technology (CAT) division
- National Communication Association (NCA) Human Communication and Technology Division (HCTD)
- Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)
See also
- Digital history
- Digital humanities
- Internet research ethics
- Library science
- Web science
References
- ^ Dutton et al. 2013, p. 1.
- ^ a b Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 1–2, 12.
- ^ from the original on 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- from the original on 2013-02-01.
- ^ Sagástegui, Diana (September 2005). "La apropiación social de la tecnología. Un enfoque sociocultural del conocimiento" (PDF). Razón y Palabra. 49: 1–18. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-04-29. Retrieved 2017-09-13.
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- JSTOR Daily. Archivedfrom the original on September 10, 2022. Retrieved September 10, 2022.
Departments of Internet Studies have now been established at a number of universities, and the field has its own handbook and research association.
- ^ Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 1—4, 11, 18—19, 88, 93, 117—122.
- OCLC 890213173.
- ^ a b Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 12—13, 24—42.
- ^ Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 111—115, 304, 332—347.
- ^ Dutton et al. 2013, p. 401–437.
- ^ "Computers in Human Behavior". Elsevier. Archived from the original on 2019-04-14. Retrieved 2014-08-12.
- ^ a b c Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 2.
- ^ Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 21.
- ^ "The Fibreculture Journal". Archived from the original on 2019-05-12. Retrieved 2014-12-27.
- ^ "Teknokultura. Revista de Cultura Digital y Movimientos Sociales" [TechnoKultura. Magazine of Digital Culture and Social Movements]. Universidad Complutense de Madrid (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2019-05-15. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- from the original on 2013-02-01.
- ^ Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 17.
- from the original on 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 1, 19—20.
- ^ Newhagen, John E.; Rafaeli, Sheizaf (1996). "Why communication researchers should study the internet: a dialog". Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication. 1 (4). Archived from the original on 2012-11-05. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
- ^ "Internet & Technology". Pew Research Center. 8 October 2015. Archived from the original on 11 September 2022. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
- ^ a b Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 19—20.
- ^ World Internet Project. "World Internet Project". Archived from the original on 2021-03-28. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
- ^ Robin Manse. "Information and Communication Technology Policy Research in the United Kingdom: A Perspective". Archived from the original on February 9, 2022. Retrieved September 11, 2022.
- ^ "RCCS: Welcome". rccs.usfca.edu. Archived from the original on 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
- ^ "PSCI0307A-S11". Middlebury College. Archived from the original on 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2013-10-30.
- ^ McLemee, Scott (30 March 2001). "Internet Studies 1.0: a Discipline Is Born". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 47, no. 29. p. A24. Archived from the original on 10 September 2022. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
- ^ Consalvo et al. 2011, p. 12.
Sources
- Consalvo, Mia; Ess, Charles, eds. (April 2011). The Handbook of Internet Studies (1 ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-1-4051-8588-2. Archivedfrom the original on 2022-09-10. Retrieved 2022-09-10.
- Dutton, William H., ed. (2013). The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies. Oxford Handbooks (1 ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199589074. Archivedfrom the original on 2022-09-11. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
Further reading
- Graham, Mark; Dutton, William H., eds. (July 18, 2019). Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives (2nd ed.). Oxford University Press. OCLC 1128056976.
- Ess, Charles M; Dutton, William H (April 2013). "Internet Studies: Perspectives on a rapidly developing field". New Media & Society. 15 (5): 633–643. S2CID 12436793.