NMS explores the Rise of Internet Studies in Special Issue

The journal New Media and Society has recently released a special issue on the The Rise of Internet Studies. Edited by Charles M Ess
and William H Dutton this publication seeks to articulate the significant bodies of findings and begin to identify an evolving set of constitutive domains and trends within this new field of scholarly inquiry. Articles in the issue explore how important topics such as online community (A culturalist critique of ‘online community’ in new media studies-Elaine J Yuan) , race (Race and racism in Internet Studies: A review and critique-Jessie Daniels) and religion (Religion and the Internet: A microcosm for studying Internet trends and implications-Heidi Campbell). More details of the issue and its articles can be found at: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/current.