Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-237) and index.
Virtual methods and the sociology of cyber-social-scientific knowledge / Christine Hine -- Internet behaviour and the design of virtual methods / Adam N. Joinson -- Online interviewing and the research relationship / Joëlle Kivits -- From online to offline and back : moving from online to offline relationships with research informants / Shani Orgad -- Researching the online sex work community / Teela Sanders -- Ethnographic presence in a nebulous setting / Jason Rutter and Gregory W. H Smith -- Centring the links : understanding cybernetic patterns of co-production, circulation and consumption / Maximilian C. Forte -- Role of maps in virtual research methods / Martin Dodge -- New connections, familiar settings : issues in the ethnographic study of new media use at home / Hugh Mackay -- Doing anthropology in cyberspace : fieldwork boundaries and social environments / Mário J.L Guimarães Jr. -- Web sphere analysis : an approach to studying online action / Steven M. Schneider and Kirsten A. Foot -- Network approach to web hyperlink research and its utility for science communication / Han Woo Park and Mike Thelwall -- Sociable hyperlinks: an ethnographic approach to connectivity / Anne Beaulieu -- Epilogue : Methodological concerns and innovations in internet research / Nicholas W. Jankowski and Martine van Selm