Editing Internet research (section)

===Related fields===
One distinction could be made between Internet studies and Internet research, in that the former is the study of the distinctive sorts of human interaction done on the Internet,<ref>{{Cite journal| issn = 0172-6404| volume = 37| issue = 4 (142)| pages = 102–117| last = Brügger| first = Niels| title = When the Present Web is Later the Past: Web Historiography, Digital History, and Internet Studies| journal = Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung| access-date = 2025-05-03| date = 2012| url = https://www.jstor.org/stable/41756477| jstor = 41756477}}</ref> whereas Internet research could study other aspects than behavior: technology, outcomes, etc.

[[Library and information science]] studies information, especially how it is managed and deployed. Its object is related, but not identity to Internet research, whose object of study is an activity.

[[Human–computer interaction]] is the study of the design and the use of computer technology, with a focus on the interfaces between people humans and computers.