Here is where you can find my work:

Recently out:

Baym, N. K. & Burnett. R. (2009). Amateur Experts: International Fan Labor in Swedish Independent Music. International Journal of Cultural Studies. 12(5): 1-17

Baym, N. K. & Ledbetter, A. (2009). Tunes that Bind?: Predicting Friendship Strength in a Music-Based Social Network. Information, Communication & Society.12(3).

Baym, N. K. (2009). A Call for Grounding in the Face of Blurred Boundaries Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Volume 14, Issue 3, 720-723

Markham, A. & Baym, N. K. (Editors) (2009). Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method. Sage. More information, including the table of contents, is here. You can read three reviews here, here, and here. They like it!

In the pipeline:

Baym, N. K. (in press). Social Networks 2.0 in The Blackwell Companion to Internet Studies. Edited by Robert Burnett, Mia Consalvo and Charles Ess. Out in January, 2010.

Baym, N. K. (in press) Personal Connections in a Digital Age. Polity Press. Out in April, 2010.

Hard at work writing:

another piece or three about Swedish independent music.

more on friendship in Last.fm

On shelves waiting to be read:

Books and Special Issues

Baym, N. K. (2000). Tune In, Log On: Soaps, Fandom, and Online Community. Sage Publications, Inc. Click here for two reviews (with a response by me -- scroll on down to April 2001). This book is where you can find my work on soap fan community in one place.

Baym, N. K. (2005), Editor. ICT Research and disciplinary boundaries: Is 'Internet Research" a virtual field, a proto-discipline, or something else? Special issue of The Information Society: (click on link for table of contents and abstracts).

Consalvo, M., Baym, N. K., Hunsinger, J., Jensen, K. B,. Logie, J., Murero, M., & Shade, L.R (Eds.). (2004) Internet Research Annual, Volume I. Peter Lang.

Baym, N. K. (2003), Editor. The Interpersonal Internet Special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication/Revue Electronique de Communication.

Articles

Baym, N. K. (2007). The new shape of online community: The example of Swedish independent music fandom. First Monday, volume 12, number 8.

Baym, N.K., Zhang, Y.B., Lin, M.-C., Kunkel, A., Lin, M. & Ledbetter, A. (2007). Relational Quality and Media Use. New Media & Society, 9(5).

Baym, N. K. (2006) Finding the Quality in Qualitative Internet Research. In Silver, D. & Massanari, A. (Eds.) Critical Cyberculture Studies: Current Terrains, Future Directions. New York University Press.

Baym, N. K. (2006). Interpersonal Life Online. In S. Livingstone & L. Lievrouw (Eds.) The Handbook of New Media, Student Edition. Sage Publications.{updated version of the article from the 2001 first edition}.

Baym, N. K. (2005) Online Communication in Close Relationships: Revealing what surveys obscure. In M. Consalvo and M. Allen (Eds.). Internet Research Annual, Volume 2. Peter Lang.

Postmes, T. & Baym, N. K.(2005). Intergroup Communication and the Internet. In Harwood, J. & Giles, H. (Eds.) Intergroup Communication: Multiple Perspectives. Peter Lang.

Baym, N. K. (2005) Language in Computer-Mediated Communication. In Brown, K. (Ed.). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Second Edition. Elsevier.

Baym, N.K., Zhang, Y.B., & Lin, M.-C. (2004) Social Interactions across Media: Interpersonal Communication on the Internet, Face-to-Face, and the Telephone. New Media & Society.6(3), 299-318.

Translated to Croatian! Baym, N. K., (2004) Izvedbe humora u racunalno posredovanoj komunikciji. Institut za ethnologiju i folkloristiku. Etnographije Interneta. Ibis Grafica. pp. 161 - 191.

Baym, N. K. (2003). Communication Practices in the Online Community. In Levinson, D. & Christensen, K. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Community. Sage Publications

Baym, N. K. (2002). "I Think of Them as Friends" Interpersonal Relationships in the Online Community. In G. Dines & J. M. Humez (Eds.) Gender, Race, & Class in Media, Second Edition. Sage Publications. {an abridged reprinted chapter from my book of the same name}

Baym, N. K. (2002). Situating Online Community in Offline Life. Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia.

Baym, N. K. (2001). Interpersonal Life Online. In S. Livingstone & L. Lievrouw (Eds.) The Handbook of New Media. Sage Publications.

Baym, N. K. (2001). Tune In, Log On. In A. Giddens (Ed.) Sociology: Introductory Readings, Second Edition. Polity Press. {a reprinted excerpt from the book of the same name}

Baym, N. K. (2000). Vom Heimatdorf zum Großstadtdschungel: Die Urbanisierung der On-Line Gemeinschaft. In U. Thiedeke (Ed.) Virtuelle Gruppen. Charaktersitika und Problemdimensionen. Opladen/Wiesbaden. Westdeutcher Verlag.

Baym, N. K. (1998) The Emergence of On-line Community. In S. Jones (Ed.) Cybersociety: communication and community (pp. 35-68), Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Baym, N. K. (1998) The Talk of Fandom: The Importance of the Social Practices of Soap Opera Fans in a Computer-Mediated Discussion Group. In Cheryl Harris & Alison Alexander (Eds.) Theorizing Fandom: Fans, Subcultures and Identity, Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press Inc.

Baym, N. K. (1997, Fall). Identity, Body and Community in Online Life. Review Essay of Turkle, Stone, Shields, Featherstone & Burrows, Shroeder, and Porter. The Journal of Communication.

Baym, N. K. (1997). Interpreting Soap Operas and Creating Community: Inside an Electronic Fan Culture. In Sara Kiesler (Ed.) Culture of the Internet. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence-Erlbaum. {this is an abridged reprint of the 1993 Journal of Folklore Research article}

Baym, N. K. (1996). Agreements and Disagreements in a Computer-Mediated Discussion. Research on Language and Social Interaction. 29, 315-346.

Baym, N. K. (1995). The Performance of Humor in Computer-Mediated Communication. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Volume 1, Issue 2.

Baym, N. K. (1995). The Emergence of Community in Computer-Mediated Communication. In Steven Jones (Ed.) CyberSociety, 138-163. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.

Baym, N. K. (1995). From Practice to Culture on Usenet. In Susan Leigh Star (Ed.) The Cultures of Computing, 29-52. Sociological Review Monograph Series. London: Basil Blackwell.

Baym, N. K. (1993) Interpreting Soap Operas and Creating Community: Inside a Computer-Mediated Fan Culture. Journal of Folklore Research, Vol. 30, No. 2/3, 143-177. {reprinted in abridged form in Kiesler, 1997 -- see above}