Biography

Christine Hine joined the Department in 2003, having previously worked at Brunel University. Her main research centres on the sociology of science and technology, including ethnographic studies of scientific culture, information technology and the Internet. She has also taken a lead role in promoting discussion of methodologies for sociological understanding of the Internet. Christine was President of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology from 2004 to 2008. She has taught a range of courses at all levels, including Sociology of Contemporary Societies , Understanding Internet Culture , Analysing Media, Sociological Analysis and Documentary Analysis and Online Research. Christine is Programme Director for the part time MSc in Social Research.

Publications

Books

Hine, C. (2008) Systematics as Cyberscience: Computers, Change and Continuity in Science. MIT Press.
Hine, C. (ed) (2006) New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-Science, Idea Group Inc.
Hine, C. (ed) (2005) Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet. Berg.

Hine, C. (2000) Virtual Ethnography Sage.

Journal Articles

Hine, C. (2007) Connective ethnography for the exploration of e-science. Journal of Computer Mediated Communication 12(2) http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol12/issue2/hine.html
Hine, C. (2007) Multi-sited ethnography as a middle range methodology for contemporary STS, Science Technology and Human Values, 32(6), 652-671.
Hine, C. (2006) Databases as scientific instruments and their role in the ordering of scientific work, Social Studies of Science, 36(2), 269-298.
Hine, C. (2002) Cyberscience: and social boundaries: the implications of laboratory talk on the Internet. Sociological Research Online. 7(2) http://www.socresonline.org.uk/7/2/hine.html.
Hine, C. (2001) Ideas of audience in World Wide Web design: the meaning of a mouse click. Information, Communication and Society 4(2): 182-198.
Hine, C. and Eve, J. (1998) Privacy in the Marketplace. The Information Society 14(4): 253-262.
Hine, C. (1995) Representations of information technology in disciplinary development: disappearing plants and invisible networks. Science, Technology and Human Values 20(1): 65-85.

Book chapters

Hine, C. (2008) How can qualitative internet researchers define the boundaries of their projects? In A.N. Markham and N.K. Baym (eds.) Internet Inquiry: conversations about method. Sage.
Hine, C. (2008) Internet research as emergent practice. In P. Leavy and S. Hesse-Bibber (eds.) Handbook of Emergent Methods. Guilford Publications.
Hine, C. (2008) Overview: Virtual ethnography: modes, varieties, affordances. In N. G. Fielding, R.M. Lee and G. Blank (eds.) Handbook of Online Research Methods. Sage.
Hine, C. (2008) The Internet and research methods. In N. Gilbert (ed.) Researching Social Life. 3rd edn. Sage.
Hine, C. (2008) Virtual ethnography In L.M. Given (ed.) Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods. Sage.
Hine, C. (2006) Computerization movements and scientific disciplines; the reflexive potential of new technologies. In Hine, C. (ed.) New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: understanding e-science. Information Science Publishing. pp 26 – 47.
Hine, C. (2004) Virtual ethnography. In Lewis-Beck, M.S., Bryman, A. and Liao, T.F. The Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods. Sage.
Hine, C. (2001) Ethnography in the laboratory. In D. Gellner and E. Hirsch (eds.) Inside Organizations: anthropologists at work. Berg.
Hine, C. (1998) Information technology as an instrument of genetics. In P. Glasner and H. Rothman (eds.) Genetic Imaginations: Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research. Ashgate.

Selected Conference Papers

Hine, C. (2005) The politics and practice of accessiblity in systematics.
Paper prepared for presentation at Past, Present and Future of Research in the Information Society, 13-15 November 2005, Tunis, Tunisia. An official side event preceding Phase II of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
Hine, C. (2003) Systematics as cyberscience: the role of ICTs in the working practices of taxonomy. Paper presented at the Oxford Internet Institute "Information, Communication and Society" symposium, 17-20 September 2003, University of Oxford, UK.
Hine, C. (1998) Virtual ethnography. Conference Proceedings of Internet Research and Information for Social Scientists, 25-27 March 1998, Bristol, UK http://www.sosig.ac.uk/iriss/papers/paper16.htm