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1. Introduction -- 2. The Internet -- 3. Internet-Mediated Research: State of the Art -- 4. Sampling in Internet-Mediated Research -- 5. Ethics in Internet-Mediated Research -- 6. Tools and Design Strategies for Internet-Mediated Rsearch -- 7. What Can Go Wrong?

This handbook is a detailed introduction to the numerous academic perspectives we can apply to the study of the internet as a political, social and communicative phenomenon

Foundations: Affect and the Expression of Emotions on the Internet: An Overview of Current Research -- An Obscure Object of Communicational Desire: The Untold Story of Online Chat -- Big Social Data Approaches in Internet Studies: The Case of Twitter -- Collaboration Between Social Sciences and Computer Science: Toward a Cross-Disciplinary Methodology for Studying Big Social Data from Online Communities -- Critical Internet Studies -- Digital Activism Within Post-Fordism: Interventions Between Assimilation and Exclusion -- Digital Folklore -- Historical Web as a Tool for Analyzing Social Change -- How Computer Networks Became Social -- Lessons from Internet Art About Life with the Internet -- Networks of Change: The Sociology of Network Media -- After networks: A theory of online fields -- Researching Affordances -- Research Programs as a Tool to Map Internet Studies -- Science and Medicine on YouTube -- Spatial Analysis Meets Internet Research -- Combating the Live-Streaming of Child Sexual Abuse and Sexual Exploitation: A Need for New Legislation -- What Media Logics Can Tell Us About the Internet?- Introduction – Foundations -- Telephone Interviewing as a Qualitative Methodology for Researching Cyberinfrastructure and Virtual Organizations -- Degree Programs in Internet Studies or Internet Research -- Research Ethics, Vulnerability, and Trust on the Internet -- Logics and Legacy of Anonymous -- Feminized Digital Sociality and Online Philanthropy -- Research Centers or Institutes in Internet Research or Internet Studies. Futures: Introduction -- Blended Data: Critiquing and Complementing Social Media Datasets, Big and Small -- Big Data Approaches to the Study of Digital Media -- Big Capta?- Constitutive Surveillance and Social Media -- Convergence, Internet, and Net Neutrality Policy: What the Future Holds for the Internet and Online Content -- Cryptographic Media -- Deep Data: Analyzing Power and Influence in Social Media Networks -- Digitally Researching Islam -- Disguised Propaganda from Digital to Social Media -- Ethics of Social Media Research: State of the Debate and Future Challenges -- The Future of Crowdsourcing Through Games -- Fuzzy Limits: Researching Discourse in the Internet with Corpora -- How to Compare Different Social Media: A Conceptual and Technical Framework -- Legislating for Internet "access"-ability -- New Media, Religion, and Politics: A Comparative Investigation into the Dialogue between the Religious and the Secular in France and in Vietnam -- Nexus Analysis as a Framework for Internet Studies -- Lifelogging: Recording Life Patterns Tied to Daily Internet Usage -- Paradoxes of the Cyber Party: The Changing Organizational Design of the British Labour Party -- Smart Contracts as Evidence: Trust, Records, and the Future of Decentralized Transactions -- Affective Flux of Feminist Digital Collectives, or What Happened to the Women's March of 2017 -- Today's Internet for Tomorrow's Cities: On Algorithmic Culture and Urban Imaginaries