[Air-l] book publication - Society Online: The Internet in Context

[Philip Howard]

Dear AIRers:  Over the last couple of years a number of scholars have been
working with data from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.  These
collaborators have contributed some of the fruit of their research to a
collected edited by Steve Jones and myself, called Society Online:  The
Internet in Context.  We began calling for contributions at AIR 2.0 in
Minnesota, and are happy to announce that the collection is ready in time
for AIR 4.0 in Toronto.  The collection takes a 'spheres of life' approach
to organizing the findings of the scholarship (community, politics,
economics, culture, global & personal contexts), so it is ideal for senior
undergrad classes or as an intro for grads looking to build a reference list
on particular themes.  Check out the big display that Sage will have at our
meeting next week, there may be extra display copies.  Many of the
contributors will be at the meeting if you want to interrogate them about
their work.  The odd capitalizations in David Silver's title are not typos,
he did that deliberately.
See you soon!
Phil
Philip N. Howard
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication
University of Washington
http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/



Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones, Editors, Society Online:  The Internet in
Context (Thousand Oaks, CA:  Sage)
http://faculty.washington.edu/pnhoward/aboutsocietyonline.html

CONTENTS
Foreword (Rainie) / Prologue: The Case for Multi-method Research:  Large
Sample Design and the Study of Life Online (Witte) / Embedded Media: Who We
Know, What We Know, and Society Online (Howard).

SOCIAL CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, AND CONTENT - The Bridging and Bonding Role of
Online Communities (Norris) / Deeper Understanding, Deeper Ties: Taking
Faith Online (Larson) / Bending Gender Into the Net: Feminizing Content,
Corporate Interests, and Research Strategy (Shade) / Interrogating the
Digital Divide: The Political Economy of Race and Commerce in New Media
(Nakamura).

WIRED NEWS AND POLITICS ONLINE - Will Internet Voting Increase Turnout? An
Analysis of Voter Preference (Stromer-Galley) / The Internet and Political
Involvement in 1996 and 2000 (Rice and Katz) / New Media, Internet News, and
the News Habit (Dessauer) / Crisis Communication and New Media: The Web
After September 11 (Schneider and Foot).

ECONOMIC LIFE ONLINE - ‘sHoP onLiNE!’: Advertising Female Teen Cyberculture
(Silver and Garland) / Permanently Beta: Responsive Organization in the
Internet Era (Neff and Stark) / Art Versus Code: The Gendered Evolution of
Web Design Skills (Kotamraju).

CULTURE AND SOCIALIZATION ONLINE - Wired and Well Read (Griswold and Wright)
/ The Disembodied Muse: Music in the Internet Age (Peterson and Ryan) /
Technology and Tolerance: Public Opinion Differences Among Internet Users
and Nonusers (Robinson, Neustadtl, and Kestnbaum).

PERSONAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS OF LIFE ONLINE - Informed Web Surfing: The
Social Context of User Sophistication (Hargittai) / American Internet Users
and Privacy: A Safe Harbor of Their Own? (Starke-Meyerring, Burk, and Gurak)
/ Sited Materialities With Global Span (Sassen) / The Future of the
Internet: Cultural and Individual Conceptions (Bainbridge) / Conclusion:
Contexting the Network (Jones).