Here is where you can find my work:

Recently out:

Markham, A. & Baym, N. K. (Editors) (2009). Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method. Sage. Just published! More information, including the table of contents, is here. Don't ask me why it's copyrighted in the future. I'm just glad it's here.

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).

In the pipeline:

Baym, N. K. Personal Connections in a Digital Age. Polity Press.Should be out in 2009.

Baym, N. K. Social Networks 2.0 in Blackwell Companion to Internet Studies. Edited by Robert Burnett, Mia Consalvo and Charles Ess

I'm also writing up:

- a project modeling the place of fans in the promotion and distribution of Swedish indie music with Robert Burnett that follows up on the First Monday piece above.You can get the PDF of a slide show aimed at bands and industry folks that comes from this project here.

- a study of "friending" on Last.fm. I have collected approximately 600 surveys from people aged 18-57 in 47 countries about a random friendship on the social networking site Last.fm.With Andrew Ledbetter, I am analyzing how these partners use multiple communication media and how that relates to the nature of their interpersonal relationships.

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. (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}