Researching Society Online

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 Guillen and Sandra Suarez 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 Jose van Dijck