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Social Science of the Internet new article content ... Social science of the internet uses social science concepts and methods to look at the fundamental changes to society, politics and the economy brought about by the Web. It uses online research methods for collecting and analysing internet data that can then be used to help understand life in the internet age.

Social science of the internet is taught as a part of a social research master’s degree by the Australian Demographic and Social Research Institute at the Australian National University. A masters of Social Science of the Internet has been offered since 2009 at the Oxford Internet Institute.

At the | Australian National University this specialty in the Masters of Social Research course was first offered in 2008. The first student to graduate with this specialty graduated in June 2010.

The | Oxford Internet Institute also offers a series of undergraduate lectures in social science of the internet.