The Internet in Everyday Life (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Wellman, Barry; Haythornthwaite, Caroline

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives. * * Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet. * * Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world. * * Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area. * * Studies are based on empirical data. * * Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470777381
• Artikelnr.: 38210226

Autorenporträt

Barry Wellman learned to keypunch in 1965 and started chatting online in 1976. Now the head of the University of Toronto's NetLab, he's a leading scholar of cybersociety, community, and social network analysis. Prof. Wellman has pioneered understanding of both communities and computer networks as social networks. He founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis, chaired the Community section of the American Sociological Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Association for Internet Research. He's written more than 200 articles and edited two other books. His website has received 20,000 hits in three years. Caroline Haythornthwaite is a faculty member at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Coordinator of the Undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies. Before returning to full-time study, she spent over 10 years in software development as a programmer, systems analyst, and software development manager. Her research focuses on how people work and learn together at a distance via computer technology and the Internet, and examines what combinations of computer media, and work and social communications build ties and social networks online. Current projects include examination of learning networks and community ties among distance learners, and processes of knowledge co-construction among members of distributed research teams.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Moving The Internet Out Of Cyberspace.

Part II: The Place Of The Internet In Everyday Life.

Part III: Finding Time For The Internet.

Part IV: The Internet In The Community.

Part V: The Internet At School, Work And Home.

Rezensionen

"Wellman is to be congratulated for pulling together a collectionof excellent articles that will make a valuable contribution toempirically grounding discussions about the effects of the Interneton our everyday life experiences." Communication &Society

"Its breadth, depth and empiricism make for an immenselyimpressive collection which is likely to influence the field ofinternet studies for years to come" New Media andSociety

"Work like that done in The Internet in Everyday Life isinvaluable in helping us see and understand the technological worldin which we are immersed. As such, it makes a major contribution toour discipline and our society." ContemporarySociology

"A powerful collective statement both about the domestication ofthe Internet in everyday life and about the need for new kinds ofquestions and methodologies in the next generation of Internetstudies." Social Forces