Science and the Internet: Its most appealing, usable, and integrating component, the World Wide Web, came from its laboratories. Fifteen years after the invention of the web, it has become such an integral part of the infrastructure of modern societies that young people cannot imagine a world without it. It has become even easier to imagine a world without roads and cars than a world without the World Wide Web...
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How Internet-Mediated Research Changes Science
Ulf-Dietrich Reips
Ulf-Dietrich Reips
Ulf-Dietrich Reips is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Zurich, Switzerland. His main research interests are methods, tools, and techniques of Internet-based research, e-learning, online privacy, and self-disclosure; data mining; cognitive, social, and business psychology; and e-health. Reips is founding editor of the International Journal of Internet Science and has published more than 60 journal articles, book chapters, and books in the field, including Dimensions of Internet Science (with Michael Bosnjak, 2001), Online Social Sciences (with Bernad Batinic and Michael Bosnjak, 2002), and The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology (with Adam Joinson, Katelyn McKenna, and Tom Postmes, 2007). Email: u.reips@psychologie.uzh.ch
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To cite this chapter:
Reips, U.-D. (2008). How Internet-mediated research changes science. In A. Barak (Ed.), Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications (pp. 268-294). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
Reips, U.-D. (2008). How Internet-mediated research changes science. In A. Barak (Ed.), Psychological aspects of cyberspace: Theory, research, applications (pp. 268-294). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.