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New media/Internet research topics of the association of Internet researchers
Ronald E. Rice, University of California, Santa Barbara
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ABSTRACT: This study summarizes prior reviews of new media and Internet research, and the growth of the term Internet
in academic publications and online newsgroups. It then uses semantic network analysis to summarize the interests and
concepts of an interdisciplinary group of Internet researchers, as represented by session titles and paper titles and
abstracts from the 2003 and 2004 Association of Internet Researchers conferences. In both years, the most frequent
words appearing in the paper abstracts included Internet, online, community, social, technology, and research. The 2003
papers emphasized topics such as the social analysis/research of online/Internet communication, community, and
information, with particular coverage of access, individuals, groups, digital media, culture; role and process in
e-organizations; and world development. The 2004 papers emphasized topics such as access; news and social issues; the
role of individuals in communities; user-based studies; usage data; and blogs, women, and search policy, among
others.
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Ronald E. Rice,
"New media/Internet research topics of the association of Internet researchers"
(2005).
Information Society.
21 (4),
pp. 285-299.
Postprint available free at: http://repositories.cdlib.org/postprints/943
This is an early or unrevised version, and is not definitive, and therefore should not be cited. The Citation is: Rice, R. E. (2005). New media/Internet research topics of the Association of Internet Researchers. The Information Society, 21, 285-299.
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