Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, a Research Affiliate in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Information Technology and National Development at the University of Cape Town. His research spans topics between digital labour, the gig economy, internet geographies, and ICTs and development.

William H. Dutton is Emeritus Professor at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. He is also Senior Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), an Oxford Martin Fellow supporting the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He was founding director of the OII, and a Fellow of Balliol College, until appointment as the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at MSU, where he served as Director of the James H. Quello Center until 2018.

• Foreword


• Introduction


• Part I: The Internet and Everyday Life


• 1: Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman: The Internet in Daily Life: The Turn to Networked Individualism


• 2: Limor Shifman: Internet Memes and the Twofold Articulation of Values


• 3: Mark Graham, Sanna Ojanperä, and Martin Dittus: Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labor


• 4: Bianca C. Reisdorf, Grant Blank, and William H. Dutton: Internet Cultures and Digital Inequalities


• 5: Anabel Quan-Haase, Renwen Zhang, Barry Wellman, and Hua Wang: Older Adults on Digital Media in a Networked Society: Enhancing and Updating Social Connections


• 6: Eszter Hargittai and Marina Micheli: Internet Skills and Why They Matter


• Part II: Digital Rights, Human Rights


• 7: Lisa Nakamura: Gender and Race in the Gaming World


• 8: Christopher Millard: Data Protection in the Clouds


• 9: Sadie Creese, Ruth Shillair, Maria Bada, and William H. Dutton: Building the Cybersecurity Capacity of Nations


• 10: Ralph Schroeder: Big Data: Marx, Hayek, and Weber in a Data-Driven World


• Part III: Networked Ideas, Politics, and Governance


• 11: Helen Margetts, Scott Hale, and Peter John: Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shapes Collective Action


• 12: Philip N. Howard and Samantha Bradshaw: Social Media and Democracy in Crisis


• 13: William H. Dutton, Bianca C. Reisdorf, Grant Blank, Elizabeth Dubois, and Laleah Fernandez: The Internet and Access to Information About Politics: Searching Through Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Disinformation


• 14: Silvia Majó-Vázquez and Sandra González-Bailón: Digital News and the Consumption of Political Information


• Part IV: Networked Businesses, Industries, and Economics


• 15: Mark Graham: The Internet at the Global Economic Margins


• 16: Gina Neff: The Political Economy of Digital Health


• 17: Antonio A. Casilli and Julian Posada: The Platformization of Society and its Discontents


• 18: Greg Taylor: Scarcity of Attention for a Medium of Abundance: An Economic Perspective


• 19: Matthew David: Incentives to Share in the Digital Economy


• Part V: Technological and Regulatory Histories and Futures


• 20: Jack Linchuan Qiu: Three Phases in the Development of China's Network Society


• 21: Victoria Nash: The Politics of Children's Internet Use


• 22: Eli Noam: Looking Ahead at Internet Video and its Societal Impacts


• 23: Laura DeNardis: The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance


• 24: David Bray and Vinton Cerf: The Unfinished Work of the Internet