VOLUME ONE: The Social Context of Online Research
Part One: Classics
Cyburgs. Review of ‘the Virtual Community. Homesteading on the Electronic Frontier’ by Howard Rheingold
William Sims Bainbridge
Review of ‘Virtual Reality’ by Howard Rheingold
J. Timmons Roberts
Community without Propinquity Revisited: Communications Technology and the Transformation of the Urban Public Sphere
Craig Calhoun
Towards a Sociology of the Network Society
Manuel Castells
Materials for the Exploration of the Network Society
Manuel Castells
An Introduction to the Information Age
Manuel Castells
Network Rules of Order: Regulating Speech in Public Electronic Fora
William Dutton
Proper Methodologies for Psychological and Sociological Studies Conducted via the Internet
Claire Hewson, Dianna Laurent and Carl Vogel
Catching Cybercriminals: Policing the Internet
David Wall
Consumption and Digital Commodities in the Everyday
Mark Poster
Part Two: Digital Divides and Exclusions
Social Implications of the Internet
Paul DiMaggio et al.
Exploring the Digital Divide Internet Connectedness and Age
William Loges and Joo-Young Jung
Beyond Access: The Digital Divide and Internet Uses and Gratifications
Jaeho Cho et al.
The Digital Divide as a Complex and Dynamic Phenomenon
Jan Van Dijk and Ken Hacker
New Social Survey Perspectives on the Digital Divide
John Robinson, Paul DiMaggio and Eszter Hargittai
Reconsidering Political and Popular Understandings of the Digital Divide
Neil Selwyn
Digital Divide Research, Achievements and Shortcomings
Jan Van Dijk
Explaining the Global Digital Divide: Economic, Political and Sociological Drivers of Cross-National Internet Use
Mauro Guillén and Sandra Suárez
Social Movements and New Media
Brian Loader
Coming of (Old) Age in the Digital Age: ICT Usage and Non-Usage among Older Adults
Barbara Barbosa Neves, Fausto Amaro and Jaime Fonseca
VOLUME TWO: Critical and 'Live' Issues in Researching Society Online
Part One: Gender and the Internet
Net Gains, Net Losses
Cheris Kramarae and Jana Kramer
Gendered Conversational Rituals on the Internet: An Effective Voice Is Based on More than Simply What One Is Saying
Pamela Cushing
Women's Studies Online Cyberfeminism or Cyberhype?
Ivy Schweitzer
Gender and the Internet
Hiroshi Ono and Madeline Zavodny
Reflections on Gender and Technology Studies: In What State Is the Art?
Judy Wajcman
Cultural Production, Transnational Networking, and Critical Reflection in Feminist Zines
Elke Zobl
“Click Here” A Content Analysis of Internet Rape Sites
Jennifer Lynn Gossett and Sarah Byrne
Progressive Yet Traditional
Stephen Koerning and Neil Granitz
Feminist Sexualities, Race and the Internet: An Investigation of Suicidegirls.Com
Shoshana Magnet
Gender, Space, and Discourse across Borders: Talking Gender in Cyberspace
Janemaree Maher and Chng Huang Hoon
Part Two: Research Ethics and Researching Sensitive Topics
Using the Internet for Survey Research
Ross Coomber
Ethical Issues in Conducting Sex Research on the Internet
Yitzchak Binik, Kenneth Mah and Sara Kiesler
Ethical Issues for Qualitative Research in On-Line Communities
Charlotte Brownlow and Lindsay O’Dell
What Is Special about the Ethical Issues in Online Research?
Dag Elgesem
Internet Research: An Opportunity to Revisit Classic Ethical Problems in Behavioral Research
David Pittenger
“Go Away”: Participant Objections to Being Studied and the Ethics of Chatroom Research
James Hudson and Amy Bruckman
Internet Users’ Perceptions of ‘Privacy Concerns’ and ‘Privacy Actions’
Carina Paine et al.
Development of Measures of Online Privacy Concern and Protection for Use on the Internet
Tom Buchanan et al.
Ethical Pluralism and Global Information Ethics
Charles Ess
Children's Use of the Internet: Reflections on the Emerging Research Agenda
Sonia Livingstone
Gradations in Digital Inclusion: Children, Young People and the Digital Divide
Sonia Livingstone
“But the Data Is Already Public”: On the Ethics of Research in Facebook
Michael Zimmer
An Ethics of Intimacy: Online Dating, Viral-Sociality and Living with HIV
Fadhila Mazanderani
VOLUME THREE: Online Data Collection Methods
Part One: Internet as a Medium (Interviews/Questionnaires etc.)
The e-Interview
Roberta Bampton and Christopher Cowton
E-mail Interviewing in Qualitative Research: A Methodological Discussion
Lokman Meho
Qualitative Interviewing in Internet Studies: Playing with the Media, Playing with the Method
Michelle Kazmer and Bo Xie
Why Are Adolescents Addicted to Online Gaming? An Interview Study in Taiwan
Chin-Sheng Wan and Wen-Bin Chiou
Interviews and Internet Forums: A Comparison of Two Sources of Qualitative Data
Clive Seale et al.
Web-based Questionnaires and the Mode Effect: An Evaluation Based on Completion Rates and Data Contents of Near-Identical Questionnaires Delivered in Different Modes
Martyn Denscombe
Social Desirability, Anonymity, and Internet-based Questionnaires
Adam Joinson
Web Surveys: A Review of Issues and Approaches
Mick Couper
Should We Trust Web-based Studies? A Comparative Analysis of Six Preconceptions about Internet Questionnaires
Samuel Gosling et al.
The Impact of Material Incentives on Response Quantity, Response Quality, Sample Composition, Survey Outcome, and Cost in Online Access Panels
Anja Goritz
Fans, Homophobia and Masculinities in Association Football: Evidence of a More Inclusive Environment
Ellis Cashmore and Jamie Cleland
Part Two: Internet Ethnography
Trading Sexpics on IRC: Embodiment and Authenticity on the Internet
Don Slater
Cyberspace and Identity
Sherry Turkle
Internet Research and the Sociology of Cyber-Social-Scientific Knowledge
Christine Hine
Inside the “Pro-ana” Community: A Covert Online Participant Observation
Sarah Brotsky and David Giles
Avatar Watching: Participant Observation in Graphical Online Environments
Matthew Williams
The Internet in Everyday Life: Computer Networking from the Standpoiont of the Domestic User
Maria Bakardjieva and Richard Smith
Normativity and the Principle of Materiality: A View from Digital Anthropology
Heather Horst and Daniel Miller
Polymedia: Towards a New Theory of Digital Media in Interpersonal Communication
Mirca Madianou and Daniel Miller
Internet Ethnography: Online and Offline
Liav Sade-Beck
Digital Ethnography an Examination of the Use of New Technologies for Social Research
Dhiraj Murthy
Ethnographic Approaches to the Internet and Computer-Mediated Communication
Angela Cora Garcia et al.
VOLUME FOUR: Innovation in Researching Society Online
Part One: Internet as ‘Unobtrusive Measures’
The Rebirth of the Football Fanzine: Using E-zines as Data Source
Peter Millward
What Are They Doing? Dilemmas in Analysing Bibliographic Searching: Cultural and Technical Networks in Academic Life
Matthew David and David Zeitlyn
Learning Users' Interests by Unobtrusively Observing Their Normal Behavior
Jeremy Goecks and Jude Shavlik
Psychological research online: report of Board of Scientific Affairs' Advisory Group on the Conduct of Research on the Internet
Robert Kraut et al.
Privacy Dictionary: A New Resource for the Automated Content Analysis of Privacy
Asimina Vasalou et al.
Part Two: Cutting edge case studies
The Internet for Empowerment of Minority and Marginalized Users
Bharat Mehra, Cecelia Merkel and Ann Peterson Bishop
Disciplining the Future: A Critical Organizational Analysis of Internet Studies
Annette Markham
Global Networks and Their Effects on Culture
Alexander Galloway
Making Friends with Jarvis Cocker: Music Culture in the Context of Web 2.0
David Beer
The Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology
Mike Savage and Roger Burrows
Some Further Reflections on the Coming Crisis of Empirical Sociology
Mike Savage and Roger Burrows
Qualitative Methods III: Animating Archives, Artful Interventions and Online Environments
Clarie Dwyer and Gail Davies
Entering the Blogosphere’: Some Strategies for Using Blogs in Social Research
Nicholas Hookway
Netnography: A Method Specifically Designed to Study Cultures and Communities Online
Gary Bowler
Wisdom of the Crowd or Technicity of Content? Wikipedia as a Sociotechnical System
Sabine Niederer and José van Dijck