Internet

Internet

“An internet”, is a shortened form of an inter-network. It is a computer network that connects several networks. “The Internet” is the largest of these internets, a publicly available internationally interconnected system of computers that uses the TCP/IP suite of packet switching communication protocols in addition to the services and information that these computers provide.

World Wide Web is a part of the Internet organized as hypertext.

How is Internet research related to Library and Information Science (LIS)? Internet research is an interdisciplinary field related to both science, engineering and social sciences. It is closely related to Communication Studies. There are also tendencies to establish Internet research as a field in its own right (see: Disciplinarity/interdisciplinarity: The example of Internet research). This question of disciplinarity becomes important in research and education within LIS. Students are supposed to make theses that reflect basic principles, concepts, methods and theories of LIS. There are many aspects, e.g. technological aspects that cannot be dealt with in a professional way. This is only possible if this have been taught in a systematic way. Of this reason it is important to define the special LIS focus in Internet research. One such focus may be the extension of bibliometrics to webometrics. An other focus is the domain analytic study of scientific and scholarly communication (cf., Fjordback Søndergaard; Andersen & Hjørland, 2003).

Literature:

Finnemann, N. O. (2001). The Internet — A New Communicational Infrastructure. Aarhus, Denmark: The Centre for Internet Research. (Papers from The Centre for Internet Research). http://web.archive.org/web/20031116092742/http://cfi.imv.au.dk/pub/skriftserie/002_finnemann.pdf

Fjordback Søndergaard, T.; Andersen, J. & Hjørland, B. (2003). Documents and the communication of scientific and scholarly information. Revising and updating the UNISIST model. Journal of Documentation, 59(3), 278-320. http://www.db.dk/bh/UNISIST.pdf

Gerhart, S. (2004). Do Web search engines suppress controversy? First Monday, 9(1),

http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1111/1031

Hahn, T. B. (1998). Text Retrieval Online: Historical Perspective on Web Search Engines. Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science, 24(4), http://www.asis.org/Bulletin/Apr-98/hahn.html

History of the Internet: http://www.nic.funet.fi/index/FUNET/history/internet/en/etusivu-en.html

Introna, L. D. & Nissenbaum, H.. (2000).Shaping the Web: Why the Politics of Search Engines Matter. The Information Society, 16(3), 169–186. Retrieved 2007-06-07 from: http://www.nyu.edu/projects/nissenbaum/papers/searchengines.pdf

Kiesler, S. (Ed.). (1997). The Culture of the Internet. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

NetLingo online dictionary about the Internet: http://www.netlingo.com/

Pastor-Satorras, R. & Vespignani, A. (2004). Evolution and structure of the Internet. A statistical physics approach. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Shepherd, S. J. (2007). Concepts and architectures for next-generation information search engines, International Journal of Information Management, 27(1), 3-8.

University of Toledo (1998). Department of Engienering Technology. Glossary of Internet Terms and Names. http://cset.sp.utoledo.edu/glossary.html

Journal:

Internet Research. Vol. 1-, 1991- http://www.emeraldinsight.com/Insight/viewContainer.do?containerType=Journal&containerId=11229

Birger Hjørland

Last edited: 25-06-2009

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