Rainer Rubira´s PhD project in progress: “Theoretical and Methodological Trends of Internet Studies in Communication Field. Case study: Europe and particularly Spain”. We will discuss the main background and “state of the art” in Internet Studies. As a part of the research framework Rainer Rubira will also introduce the statement of the problem, objectives, research question, research methods, approach to the object of study and sampling strategy. In particular, the ongoing design of research techniques to be used in the study such as content analysis, discourse analysis and in-depth interviews will be considered. If possible, it would be interesting to establish a focus group as a part of the empirical work of the investigation in this seminar.