Society Online: 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) [Sample Prepublication Version as *.pdf]

 

SOCIAL CAPITAL, COMMUNITY, AND CONTENT

The Bridging and Bonding Role of Online Communities (Norris)

Deeper Understanding, Deeper Ties: Taking Faith Online (Larsen)

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)