Society Online: Reviews

Review Essays

This edited collection has been reviewed and referenced in several different formats, including peer review journals and online newsletters.

Anderson, Ben. "Book Review: Society Online." New Media & Society 6, no. 6 (2004): 823-27. This review mirrored with permission.

Bunz, Ulla. "The Word of Mouse on Internet Research." Review of Communication 5, no. 1 (2005): 25-35. This review mirrored with permission and is available directly from the Review of Communication.

Gunkel, David. "Review Essay." Journalism & Mass Communication Educator 59, no 4 (2005): 416-19. This review mirrored with permission and is available directly from the Journalism and Mass Communication Editor.

Rothfork, John. "Book Review: Society Online." Education Review 344 (2005). This review and editor's response are mirrored with permission and both are available directly from the Education Review.

Wood, Robert E. "Book Review: Society Online." Contemporary Sociology 34, no 4 (2005), 386-7. Excerpts are available here.

Wysocki, Diane Kholos. "Book Review: Society Online." Teaching Sociology 33, no 1 (2005): 115. Excerpts are available here.

Zhang, Mei. "Review of Society Online: The Internet in Context by Philip N. Howard and Steve Jones." Resource Center for Cyberculture Studies (2004). This review and editor's response are mirrored with permission, and both are available directly from the RCCS.

Commentary

Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Southern California. These editors have the respect, visibility, and track-record to make this volume a contribution to the field of Internet studies. It will be adopted as an upper-division text and can also serve as a valuable reference work for doctoral students. Given its broad mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this work should have wide appeal across the Social Sciences and Information Studies.

Sheizaf Rafaeli, Center for the Study of the Information Society, University of Haifa. Society Online is an ambitious collection of articles, delivering the next generation of careful but eloquent studies of internet use and culture. Both accessible and varied treatments, rich array of methodological approaches, intriguing data and provocative thought frameworks await the reader who would be curious to see if the internet context is already converging on some stability or still oscillating in search of its impacts and identity.

Pete Peterson, Books of Note, Sociology of Culture Newsletter 18 (3) Vanderbilt University. Using data from the Pew Internet and American Life Project survey data as well as diverse other sources, the authors focus on how the internet and other new media transform community, political, cultural, and personal spheres in contemporary society. Chapters range from a concern with internet voting to music on line.