"How is society being shaped by the diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work? By … Internet, this volume introduces students to a core set of readings that address this question in specific social and …

There are concerns across government, industry, and academia over the adequacy of data about broadband Internet … distorted data. Provided that conversations about the problems and prospects of mapping and measuring the Internet feed into …

By using detailed data on Internet access and use in rural and urban areas of Britain, we show the effect of low …-speed broadband connection on people's use of the Internet and the services it provides. We use a three-fold definition of deep rural … people's relation with the Internet. We find that while overall access to the Internet varies little geographically, though …

, identifies a new agenda for addressing these issues that is being shaped by the Internet and related information and … communication technologies, such as social media. All actors in the widening ecology of the Internet require a better social and … enhancing cybersecurity. The problems tied to cybersecurity are not new, but as the Internet becomes ever more essential to …

Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the … last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and … students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the …

perspective. The issues raised are illustrated by examples relating to the history, present and future of the Internet, from its …