The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society offers critical assessments of theoretical and applied research on digitally-mediated communication, a central area of study in the 21st century.

Table of Contents

• Digital Communication and Society: A-K
• A
• Access to Infrastructure
• Access Technologies and Accessibility for Inclusion
• Alternate Reality Games
• Ambient Computing Law
• Anonymity and the Law
• B
• B2B Electronic Markets
• Blogging
• C
• Children, Protection of
• Citizen Media and Journalism
• Commercial Applications in Digital Communications
• Competition/Antitrust/Antimonopoly Law
• Content Creation and Curation
• Content Regulation
• Counterterrorism Law
• Cybercrime
• D
• Data Mining and Marketing
• Defamation/Libel
• Digital Divide(s)
• Digitization of the Book Industry
• E
• E‐Agriculture
• E‐Commerce Business Models
• E‐Commerce Online Payments
• E‐Commerce and Online Security
• E‐Commerce and Online Trust
• E‐Commerce Reputation Systems
• E‐Commerce Standards
• E‐Government
• E‐Health Services
• E‐Learning for Development: The Role of the Teacher
• Educational Games and Outcomes
• Electronic Markets and Intermediation
• Environmental Issues
• F
• Freedom of Expression
• Freedom of Expression and Professional Status
• G
• Geographical Information Systems in the Global South
• Global E‐Commerce and Trade
• H
• Hate Speech Law and Policy
• I
• ICT4D
• ICT4D Donor Agencies and Networks
• ICT4D and E‐Business
• ICT4D and E‐Governance
• ICT4D and Economic Development
• ICT4D and Ethics
• ICT4D and Global Connectivity
• ICT4D and Local Access
• ICT4D and Mobile Communication
• ICT4D, Monitoring and Evaluation of
• ICT4D, Overview of Theories in
• ICT4D and Participatory Design
• ICT4D and Political Participation
• ICT4D and Poverty Reduction
• ICT4D, Regulation and Strategy
• ICT4D and Sustainability
• ICT, the Environment, and Climate Change
• ICT and Gender
• Identity and Agency
• Impression Management in Social Media
• Intellectual Property Rights
• Intermediary Responsibility
• Internet Governance
• Internet Telephony
• Digital Communication and Society: L-O
• L
• Law of Cyber Warfare
• Law and Technology
• Legal Limits to Technology Use
• Living Labs
• Location Based Commercial Services
• M
• Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs)
• Media Diversity Law and Regulation
• Microblogs
• Mobile Business Models
• Mobile Commerce Applications
• Mobile Communication Development
• Mobile Communication Law
• Mobile Games
• Mobile Lifestyles in the Business World
• Mobile Money
• Mobile Social Networks
• Multistakeholder Partnerships
• Multi‐User Dungeons (MUDs)
• N
• Netnography
• Network Neutrality
• O
• Obscenity Law
• One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Strategy
• Online Advertising
• Online Behavior and Marketing, Monitoring of
• Online Business Collaboration
• Online First‐Person Shooter Games
• Online Games
• Online Games, Addiction and Overuse of
• Online Games and Business Models
• Online Games, Casual
• Online Games Characters, Avatars, and Identity
• Online Games and Cheating
• Online Games and Children
• Online Games, Community Aspects of
• Online Games, Cooperation and Competition in
• Online Games and Counterplay
• Online Games and Crime
• Online Games Development and Production
• Online Games and Digital Ethnography
• Online Games, Effects of
• Online Games, Gender and Feminism in
• Online Games and Genre
• Online Games, Globalization of
• Online Games, Legal Issues in
• Online Games and Militarism
• Online Games Modifications and User Generated Content
• Online Games, Player Behavior
• Online Games Player Characteristics
• Online Games, Player Experiences in
• Online Games Preservation
• Online Games and Racism, Sexism, and Homophobia
• Online Games and Role Playing
• Online Intermediaries and Supply Chains
• Online Labor and Business Outsourcing
• Online Newspapers
• Online Retailing
• Open Content
• Open Source Software in the Global South
• Digital Communication and Society: P-Z
• P
• Participatory Video
• Peer‐to‐Peer Content
• Political Speech and the Law
• Privacy Law and Policy
• Privacy and Social Media
• Professional Gaming
• Public Service and Community Media
• S
• Search Engines Law and Policy
• Semantic Web
• Service Agreements, Terms of
• Social Media
• Social Media and Activism
• Social Media and Apps
• Social Media Business Models
• Social Media and Data Aggregation
• Social Media Ethics
• Social Media and Literacy
• Social Media, Mining and Profiling in
• Social Media in Organizations
• Social Media Ownership
• Social Media in Politics
• Social Media and Relationships
• Social Media and Social Capital
• Social Media Surveillance
• Social Media and Youth
• Social Networks
• Social Search
• T
• Telecenters
• V
• Virtual Economies: Origins and Issues
• Virtual World Governance
• W
• Web 2.0 – and Beyond
• Wikis
• World of Warcraft