Doing Internet Research

Steve Jones is UIC Distinguished Professor of Communication and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago, USA and Adjunct Research Professor in the Institute for Communications Research at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. He is editor of New Media & Society and co-editor of Mobile Media & Communication. His research interests encompass popular music studies, music technology, sound studies, internet studies, media history, virtual reality, human-machine communication, social robotics and human augmentics. His research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, Centers for Disease Control and the Tides Foundation.

• Introduction - James T CostiganForests, Trees and Internet ResearchStudying the Net - Steve JonesIntricacies and IssuesComplementary Explorative Data Analysis - Fay Sudweeks and Simeon J SimoffThe Reconciliation of Quantitative and Qualitative PrinciplesRecontextualizing `Cyberspace′ - Lori KendallMethodological Considerations for On-line ResearchStudying On-line Social Networks - Laura Garton, Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry WellmanCybertalk and the Method of Instances - Norman K DenzinConfiguring as a Mode of Rhetorical Analysis - James J SosnoskiFrom Paper-and-Pencil to Screen-and-Keyboard - Diane F Witmer, Robert W Colman and Sandra Lee KatzmanToward a Methodology for Survey Research on the InternetMeasuring Internet Audiences - Margaret McLaughlin et alPatrons of an On-line Art MuseumAnalyzing the Web - Ananda Mitra and Elisia CohenDirections and ChallengesThere is a There There - Jan FernbackNotes toward a Definition of CybercommunityResearching and Creating Community Networks - Teresa M Harrison and Timothy StephenBeyond Netiquette - Barbara F SharfThe Ethics of Doing Naturalistic Discourse Research on the InternetThinking the Internet - Jonathan SterneCultural Studies versus the Millennium

Good use of diagrams and tables to support the theory. Personal example used was very useful in reinforcing the theory