Mark Graham is a geographer and a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute. He is a also the Director of Research at the Oxford Internet Institute and a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment.William H. Dutton is Professor of Internet Studies at the University of Oxford's Internet Institute, and a Professorial Fellow at Balliol College. He received a lifetime achievement award for his role as founding director of the OII, and the International Communication Association's Fred Williams prize for contributions to the study of communication and technology.

• Foreword ; Introduction ; PART I. INTERNET STUDIES OF EVERYDAY LIFE ; 1. Inventing the Internet: Scapegoat, Sin Eater, and Trickster ; 2. Next Generation Internet Users: A New Digital Divide ; 3. The Conceptual Foundations of Social Network Sites and the Emergence of the Relational Self-Portrait ; 4. The Politics of Children s Internet Use ; 5. Gender and Race Online ; PART II. INFORMATION AND CULTURE ON THE LINE ; 6. Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour ; 7. China and the US in the New Internet World: A Comparative Perspective ; 8. Social Media and the News: Implications for the Press and Society ; 9. The Impact of the Internet on Media Industries: An Economic Perspective ; 10. Big Data: Towards a More Scientific Social Science and Humanities? ; PART III. NETWORKED POLITICS AND GOVERNMENTS ; 11. Transforming Government by Default? ; 12. The Wisdom of Which Crowd? On the Pathology of a Digital Democracy Initiative for a Listening Government ; 13. Online Social Networks and Bottom-up Politics ; 14. Big Data and Collective Action ; 15. Empowering Citizens of the Internet Age: The Role of a Fifth Estate ; PART IV: NETWORKED BUSINESSES, INDUSTRIES AND ECONOMIES ; 16. Scarcity of Attention for a Medium of Abundance: An Economic Perspective ; 17. The Internet in the Law: Transforming Problem-Solving and Education ; 18. The Digital Divide and Employment: The Case of the Sudanese Labour Market ; 19. A Critical Perspective on the Potential of the Internet at the Margins of the Global Economy ; PART V. TECHNOLOGICAL AND REGULATORY HISTORIES AND FUTURES ; 20. Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks ; 21. Data Privacy in the Clouds ; 22. The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance ; 23. Beyond the Internet and Web

I highly recommend this first edition to students who need a comprehensive overview of the field of Internet Studies, or those who seek new ideas and perspectives from other Internet scholars.