Nexus

Contents: Ralph Schroeder: Foreword - Daniel Araya: Introduction: Collective Intelligence - Anitza Geneve/Carla Ganito: Women and Technology: «Five Acts of Digital Agency» - Eric Cook/Cristina Garduño Freeman: Snap, Post, Share: Understanding the Online Social Life of Personal Photography - Thomas Petzold/Hanteng Liao: Geo-linguistic Analysis of the World Wide Web: The Use of Cartograms and Network Analysis to Understand Linguistic Development in Wikipedia - Lucy Morieson/Nikki Usher: Mapping the Future of News in a Digital World: US and Australian Perspectives - Andrés Monroy-Hernándes/Michael Dezuanni/Kai Kuikkaniemi: Media Literacy in the Facebook Age: Designing Online and Face to Face Learning Environments - Luca Camerini/Yujung Nam: eHealth: Bridging the Divide between Current Performance and Legitimate Expectations in Health Care Delivery - Julian Hopkins/Neal Thomas: Fielding Networked Marketing: Technology and Authenticity in the Monetization of Malaysian Blogs - Kerk Kee/Lucy Cradduck/Bridget Blodgett/Rami Olwan: Cyberinfrastructure Inside Out: Definition and Influences Shaping Ist Emergence, Development, and Implementation in the Early 21st Century - Yana Breindl/Nils Gustafsson: Leetocracy: Networked Political Activism or the Continuation of Elitism in Competitive Democracy - Tessa J. Houghton: The People's Republic of Hacktivism: A Public Sphere Theoretical Interpretation of Online Independence Movements and the People's Republic of China - Yao-Chung Chang: Cybercrime: A New Challenge for Legislation and International Negotiation - Daniel Araya/Jin Shang/Jingfang Liu: ICTs and the Green Economy: US and Chinese Policy in the 21st Century - Jean Burgess/Marcus Foth: Afterword.

Daniel Araya is a doctoral candidate in educational policy studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The focus of his research is the confluence of digital technologies and cultural globalization on systems of education. He has published widely on subjects related to the knowledge economy and peer-to-peer collaboration and is currently editing two books exploring the socioeconomic impact of digital technologies.
Yana Breindl is a PhD candidate in information and communication sciences at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Belgium. Her academic work deals with digital activism that aims at influencing European decision-making.
Tessa J. Houghton is a scholarship doctoral candidate in media and communication at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. Her research investigates hacktivism through a neo-Habermasian model of the public sphere, following the radical or agonistic theoretical tradition.

«This book is a rich and varied exploration of current and emerging themes in Internet research, and a testament to the strength and diversity of the field. Collected here is the work of young scholars at the height of their game, fearlessly exploring and expanding the outer reaches of knowledge and methodology; anyone looking to see where the next decade of Internet research may take us would do well to follow their lead.» (Axel Bruns, Author of 'Blogs, Wikipedia, Second Life and Beyond: From Production to Produsage')
«Researching socio-technological systems is never a simple task. The complications, the social and technical relations, and their ever-changing nature makes this a challenge for any researcher. But in this volume, several individuals and teams are taking up the challenges of this nexus and bringing their research to fruition through interdisciplinary, and perhaps even transdisciplinary efforts. These authors' efforts all derive from the Oxford Internet Institute's summer doctoral programme, which is a programme that I am happy to be affiliated with as a participant in 2004 and an instructor in 2009. The topics the authors present derive from that program, but also go beyond it by creating new points of research analysis and revitalizing old ones with new research. Through these authors' efforts, this book reveals significant trends in Internet research and provides well-grounded insights into contemporary phenomena surrounding the Internet.» (Jeremy Hunsinger, Virginia Tech)
«If this collection is a barometer of the future of Internet research in the next decade, then it's clear that we're in good hands. These collaborative contributions by young scholars from many countries are a tribute to the innovative programs of the Oxford Internet Institute and to the state of interdisciplinary Internet scholarship. In a time of rapid technological, social and economic change it's a relief to know that the kids are all right.» (Larry Gross, Professor and