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Understanding the internet : a socio-cultural perspective /

Explores how the internet is shaped and embedded within society, fostering new social worlds and ways of talking by using a wide range of examples to examine economic, political and cultural issues.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wessels, Bridgette
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Subjects:
Internet > Social aspects.
Internet > Aspect social.
Gesellschaft
Atarazanas > Valencia
Soziologie
Internet
Internetanvändare.
Internet > sociala aspekter.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Addressing the internet as socio-cultural forms.
  • Introduction
  • Outline and context of the argument
  • Outline of chapters
  • 2. The cultural history of the internet.
  • Introduction
  • A framework for historical analysis
  • Framing the history of the internet
  • The internet's theatre of innovation
  • Analysis: linking the details of the innovation of the internet with social change
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Cultural forms and socio-technical change.
  • Introduction
  • Addressing technology and social change
  • Deconstructing the relationship between technology and social change
  • Associating technology and social worlds: work in institutionalizing technology
  • Addressing the cultural dynamics of technological change
  • Conclusion
  • 4. The socio-cultural environment of the internet.
  • Introduction
  • Social landscape of the internet
  • Relationships between the internet and society
  • The transformation of sociability: networked individualism and networked social movements
  • The social dynamics of the internet and conceptualizing information society
  • Conclusion
  • Work and the internet.
  • Introduction
  • Relations of production: the changing context of work
  • Narratives regarding work in the e-economy-- Participation in the workplace
  • Participation and organizational issues
  • Participation and gender
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Public policy and the internet.
  • Introduction
  • The logic of the internet in public policy
  • Internet and political process
  • The internet in public services and democratic processes
  • The internet in health and social care
  • 7. Exclusion, inclusion and the internet.
  • Introduction
  • General context of inclusion and exclusion
  • Exclusion and digital divides: the global dimension
  • Access and knowledge
  • Case studies: the dynamics of inclusion and internet socio-cultural forms
  • Conclusion.
  • 8. Culture, everyday life and the internet.
  • Introduction
  • Cultural change and everyday life
  • The second age of the internet and everyday life
  • Routines and practices in daily life
  • Networks and networked individuals as social forms
  • Placing the internet in the meaningfulness of everyday life
  • Conclusion
  • 9. Cyber cultures and the internet.
  • Introduction
  • Considering culture, mediated communication and practice
  • Defining and working with cyber culture
  • Living cyber culture: narratives of the form
  • Experiences of (cyber) cultural activity: hopes, dreams, and actualities
  • Conclusion
  • 10. The communication environment and the internet.
  • Introduction
  • Shaping a communications environment: continuity and change
  • Key concepts in analysing new media
  • The social relations of a new communications environment: the new and the established
  • Mediapolis and proper distance in communication
  • Conclusion
  • 11. Conclusion.
  • Introduction
  • Social and technological change in the context of the internet
  • Internet as socio-cultural form: the communicative turn
  • Relations of production
  • Narratives of form
  • Modes of participation in the form
  • Internet as a socio-cultural form in contemporary society.