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This handbook chapter is an essay supporting an engaged field called critical internet studies. It attempts to describe internet studies and critical internet studies, empowering the field to go forward, inviting an openness to the field with an eye to inclusion instead of performing the heavy boundary-work of exclusion. It attempts to describe critical internet studies broadly while maintaining a critical perspective on some of the claims as to what must be critical internet studies.
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Hunsinger, J. (2019). Critical Internet Studies. In: Hunsinger, J., Klastrup, L., Allen, M. (eds) Second International Handbook of Internet Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1202-4_6-1
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