Introduction: What is "Internet Studies"?

The Handbook of Internet Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-8

  Ess, Charles ^a   Consalvo, Mia ^b  

^a DRURY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OHIO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

"Internet Studies" origins, Vincent Cerf and Robert E. Kahn's internetworking protocol, into TCP IP; Bromseth and Sund n, "During the mid 1990s, the Internet...debates in feminist theory"; Complexities, approaches from methodologies theoretical frameworks of disciplines; Human communication and interaction by Internet US, ARPANET and NSFNET; Initial orientation, foci and topoi defining and constituting the field; Internet studies a relatively stable field of academic study; Internet studies emerging domains, terrains and commonalities; Internet studies, the early 1990s CMC facilitation through the Internet; New Media Society, Journal of Computer Mediated Communication and Information, Communication, Society; NSFNET, fostering connections with networks outside the US

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870620729     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314861.ch     Document Type: Editorial

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