Society and the Internet

Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, a Research Affiliate in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Information Technology and National Development at the University of Cape Town. His research spans topics between digital labour, the gig economy, internet geographies, and ICTs and development.William H. Dutton is Emeritus Professor at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. He is also Senior Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), an Oxford Martin Fellow supporting the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He was founding director of the OII, and a Fellow of Balliol College, until appointment as the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at MSU, where he served as Director of the James H. Quello Center until 2018.

• ForewordManuel Castells: IntroductionMark Graham and William H. Dutton: Part I: The Internet and Everyday Life1: Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman: The Internet in Daily Life: The Turn to Networked Individualism2: Limor Shifman: Internet Memes and the Twofold Articulation of Values3: Mark Graham, Sanna Ojanperä, and Martin Dittus: Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labor4: Bianca C. Reisdorf, Grant Blank, and William H. Dutton: Internet Cultures and Digital Inequalities5: Anabel Quan-Haase, Renwen Zhang, Barry Wellman, and Hua Wang: Older Adults on Digital Media in a Networked Society: Enhancing and Updating Social Connections6: Eszter Hargittai and Marina Micheli: Internet Skills and Why They MatterPart II: Digital Rights, Human Rights7: Lisa Nakamura: Gender and Race in the Gaming World8: Christopher Millard: Data Protection in the Clouds9: Sadie Creese, Ruth Shillair, Maria Bada, and William H. Dutton: Building the Cybersecurity Capacity of Nations10: Ralph Schroeder: Big Data: Marx, Hayek, and Weber in a Data-Driven WorldPart III: Networked Ideas, Politics, and Governance11: Helen Margetts, Scott Hale, and Peter John: Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shapes Collective Action12: Philip N. Howard and Samantha Bradshaw: Social Media and Democracy in Crisis13: William H. Dutton, Bianca C. Reisdorf, Grant Blank, Elizabeth Dubois, and Laleah Fernandez: The Internet and Access to Information About Politics: Searching Through Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Disinformation14: Silvia Majó-Vázquez and Sandra González-Bailón: Digital News and the Consumption of Political InformationPart IV: Networked Businesses, Industries, and Economics15: Mark Graham: The Internet at the Global Economic Margins16: Gina Neff: The Political Economy of Digital Health17: Antonio A. Casilli and Julian Posada: The Platformization of Society and its Discontents18: Greg Taylor: Scarcity of Attention for a Medium of Abundance: An Economic Perspective19: Matthew David: Incentives to Share in the Digital EconomyPart V: Technological and Regulatory Histories and Futures20: Jack Linchuan Qiu: Three Phases in the Development of China's Network Society21: Victoria Nash: The Politics of Children's Internet Use22: Eli Noam: Looking Ahead at Internet Video and its Societal Impacts23: Laura DeNardis: The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance24: David Bray and Vinton Cerf: The Unfinished Work of the Internet