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International Handbook of Internet Research (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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International Handbook of Internet Research (Paperback, 2010 ed.)
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Internet research spans many disciplines. From the computer or
information s- ences, through engineering, and to social sciences,
humanities and the arts, almost all of our disciplines have made
contributions to internet research, whether in the effort to
understand the effect of the internet on their area of study, or to
investigate the social and political changes related to the
internet, or to design and develop so- ware and hardware for the
network. The possibility and extent of contributions of internet
research vary across disciplines, as do the purposes, methods, and
outcomes. Even the epistemological underpinnings differ widely. The
internet, then, does not have a discipline of study for itself: It
is a ?eld for research (Baym, 2005), an open environment that
simultaneously supports many approaches and techniques not
otherwise commensurable with each other. There are, of course, some
inhibitions that limit explorations in this ?eld: research ethics,
disciplinary conventions, local and national norms, customs, laws,
borders, and so on. Yet these limits on the int- net as a ?eld for
research have not prevented the rapid expansion and exploration of
the internet. After nearly two decades of research and scholarship,
the limits are a positive contribution, providing bases for
discussion and interrogation of the contexts of our research,
making internet research better for all. These 'limits,' challenges
that constrain the theoretically limitless space for internet
research, create boundaries that give de?nition to the ?eld and
provide us with a particular topography that enables research and
investigation.
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