The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.001.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 40

Keyword(s):

Research Agenda ◽

Research Policy ◽

Critical Assessment ◽

Societal Implications ◽

The Internet ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Internet Studies ◽

Social Perspectives ◽

Political Economic ◽

Key Questions

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 Studieshas been designed to provide a resource in this area, bringing together scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the future. The book aims to focus on Internet Studies as an emerging field, each chapter seeking to provide a synthesis and critical assessment of the research in a particular area. Topics covered include social perspectives on the technology of the Internet; the Internet's role in everyday life and work; implications for communication, power, and influence; and the governance and regulation of the Internet. The book aims not only to help to strengthen research on the key questions, but also to shape research, policy, and practice across many disciplines that are finding the Internet and its political, economic, cultural, and other societal implications increasingly central to their own key areas of inquiry.

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Cyber-safety and COVID-19 in the early years: A research agenda

Journal of Early Childhood Research ◽

10.1177/1476718x211014908 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1476718X2110149

Author(s):

Susan Edwards

Keyword(s):

Young Children ◽

Research Agenda ◽

Internet Use ◽

Early Years ◽

The Internet ◽

Children And Families ◽

Internet Studies ◽

School Aged Children ◽

Cyber Safety ◽

Primary And Secondary School

Young children aged birth to 5 years are known users of the internet, both unsupervised and in collaboration with adults. Adults also use the internet to share details of children’s lives with others, via sharenting and educational apps. During COVID-19 internet use by children and families rose significantly during periods of enforced stay-home. Internet use by children, and by adults on behalf exposes children to conduct, contact and content risks online. These risks mean that cyber-safety in the early years is increasingly necessary, especially concerning increased internet usage during COVID-19. While cyber-safety is well developed for primary and secondary-school aged children this is not the case for young children, their families and educators. This paper proposes a research agenda for cyber-safety in the early years, using critical constructivism and internet studies to define the internet as a non-unitary technology. Three main objects of study concerning cyber-safety in the early years, including the reference to COVID-19 are identified for targeted research, including: technologies, context and policy.

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Internet Studies: The Foundations of a Transformative Field

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0001 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

William H. Dutton

Keyword(s):

Freedom Of Expression ◽

Societal Implications ◽

The Internet ◽

Information And Communications Technologies ◽

Internet Studies ◽

Internet Policy ◽

Communications Technologies ◽

History Of ◽

Definition Of ◽

Broad Overview

This chapter offers a broad overview of Internet Studies. The key challenge of Internet Studies research focuses on the discovery of concepts, models, theories, and related frameworks that give a more empirically valid understanding of the factors influencing the Internet and its societal implications. The Internet can be used in everyday life and work, and in a converging media world. The study of Internet policy and regulation has focused on issues of freedom of expression, privacy, and ‘Internet governance’. Then, the chapter briefly discusses the issue on the definition of the Internet, and how its resolution is connected to how narrowly or broadly people draw the history of the Internet and the boundaries of the field. It is observed that studies of politics, relationships, news, and other phenomena are exploring the Internet within a larger ecology of information and communications technologies (ICTs). Also, the Internet and related ICTs are globally important.

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Analyzing Freedom of Expression Online: Theoretical, Empirical, and Normative Contributions

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589074.013.0021 ◽

2013 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Victoria Nash

Keyword(s):

Freedom Of Expression ◽

Full Range ◽

First Century ◽

Free Expression ◽

The Internet ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Theoretical Frameworks ◽

Internet Studies ◽

Digital Surveillance ◽

The Many

This chapter highlights the most significant ways in which research from across Internet Studies combines thematically to offer a picture of the challenges facing freedom of expression in the twenty-first century, as well as the need for broader theoretical frameworks. It suggests that a broader theoretical framework is required to catch the full range of law and policies shaping expression online, and to develop responses for policy and practice. The Internet presents just as many opportunities for digital surveillance or censorship as it does for free expression. The most helpful contribution of Internet Studies has been to expose and illuminate the many different forces that restrict or expand the opportunities to speak and communicate. The Internet has become central to communication and it plays a role in helping multiple actors to obtain their various goals.

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Subjective experiences of younger people with dementia and their families: implications for UK research, policy and practice

Reviews in Clinical Gerontology ◽

10.1017/s0959259809002779 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 165-174 ◽

Cited By ~ 50

Author(s):

Pamela Roach ◽

John Keady ◽

Penny Bee ◽

Kevin Hope

Keyword(s):

Research Policy ◽

Societal Implications ◽

Industrialized Countries ◽

Subjective Experiences ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Entire Family ◽

People With Dementia ◽

Personality Changes ◽

The Individual ◽

The Uk

Young-onset dementia (dementia in people under 65 years of age) remains an under-researched area of dementia care. As populations age in industrialized countries, dementia is set to increase: this includes dementias in younger people. Current estimates suggest there are over 15 000 younger people living with dementia in the UK, whilst dedicated services and research in this area remain limited. Younger people may be affected by rarer forms of dementia that can create various kinds of impairment in the individual. For example, as Boxer and Miller report, although memory can be affected, people with conditions such as frontotemporal dementia can present initially with personality changes as the primary symptom. Younger people may also have more difficulties with visuospatial and semantic tasks when compared with an person, and there are likely to be personal and societal implications for the entire family.

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Specific Language Impairment (SLI): The Internet Ralli Campaign to Raise Awareness of SLI

Psychology of Language and Communication ◽

10.2478/plc-2014-0011 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 143-148 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Gina Conti-Ramsden ◽

Dorothy V. M. Bishop ◽

Becky Clark ◽

Courtenay Frazier Norbury ◽

Margaret J. Snowling

Keyword(s):

Language Impairment ◽

Specific Language Impairment ◽

Research Policy ◽

The Internet ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Short Article ◽

Specific Language ◽

Raising Awareness ◽

State Of Affairs ◽

The Impact

Abstract In this short article, we discuss what is specific language impairment (SLI) and why it is a hidden disability that few people have heard about. We describe the impact on research, policy and practice of SLI being a neglected condition. We end by providing the background and rationale of a new internet campaign, RALLI (www.youtube.com/rallicampaign), aimed at changing this state of affairs and raising awareness of SLI.

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Configuring the Older Non-User: Between Research, Policy and Practice of Digital Exclusion

Social Inclusion ◽

10.17645/si.v8i2.2607 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (2) ◽

pp. 233-243 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Vera Gallistl ◽

Rebekka Rohner ◽

Alexander Seifert ◽

Anna Wanka

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Digital Divide ◽

Internet Use ◽

Research Policy ◽

Later Life ◽

Individual Responsibility ◽

The Internet ◽

Policy And Practice ◽

Age Related ◽

Starting Point

Older adults face significant barriers when accessing the Internet. What can be done to address these barriers? This article analyses existing strategies to tackle the age-related digital divide on three different levels: research, policy and practice. It analyses (1) scientific conceptualisations that are used when studying Internet use and non-use in later life, (2) policies that address older adults’ Internet (non-)use in Austria and (3) characteristics of older Austrian non-users of the Internet based on the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, wave 6). Analysis shows that Austrian policy tends to emphasise the individual responsibility to learn digital technologies, while placing a lower priority on structural issues, such as investments in infrastructure. However, SHARE data shows that only a small percentage of older non-users of the Internet is in fact reached with such interventions. Thus, this article suggests that policy needs to base its strategies on more refined understandings of Internet use and non-use in later life as well as a more nuanced image of the older non-user. A perspective of critical-cultural gerontology, as laid out in this article, highlights that technology adoption is a domestication process that takes place in the everyday lives of older adults, and it is these processes that interventions that tackle the age-related digital divide should take as a starting point.

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