Internet studies

Internet Studies is an interdisciplinary field studying the social, psychological, pedagogical, political, technical, cultural, artistic, and other dimensions of the internet and associated information and communication technologies. While studies of the internet are now widespread across academic disciplines, there is a growing collaboration among these investigations. In recent years, "internet studies" have become institutionalized as courses of study at several institutions of higher learning, including the University of Oxford, Curtin University of Technology, Brandeis University, Appalachian State University and the University of Minnesota. Cognates are found in departments of a number of other names, including departments of "digital culture", "new media" or "convergent media", various "iSchools", or programs like "Media in Transition" at MIT[1]. On the research side, Internet Studies intersects with studies of Cyberculture, Human-Computer Interaction, and Science and Technology Studies. A number of academic journals are central to communicating research in the field, including Bad Subjects, Convergence: The Journal of Research into New media Technologies, Ctheory, Cyber Psychology + Behaviour, First Monday, Information, Communication, and Society, The Information Society, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, M/C, New media & Society, and TeknoKultura, but research relating to internet studies appears in a diverse range of venues and disciplines.

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