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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Wellman, Barry
• Haythornthwaite, Caroline A

Titel

The Internet in everyday life [electronic resource]

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• Wiley Online Library - AutoHoldings Books

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Foreword:The Virtual Community in the Real World; Series Editor 's Preface:The Internet and the Network Society; Part I Moving the Internet out of Cyberspace; The Internet in Everyday Life:An Introduction; Part II The Place of the Internet in Everyday Life; 1 Days and Nights on the Internet; 2 The Global Villagers:Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World; 3 Syntopia:Access,Civic Involvement,and Social Interaction on the Net; 4 Digital Living:The Impact (or Otherwise)of the Internet on Everyday British Life
• 5 The Changing Digital Divide in Germany6 Doing Social Science Research Online; Part III Finding Time for the Internet; 7 Internet Use,Interpersonal Relations,and Sociability: A Time Diary Study; 8 The Internet and Other Uses of Time; 9 Everyday Communication Patterns of Heavy and Light Email Users; Part IV The Internet in the Community; 10 Capitalizing on the Net:Social Contact,Civic Engagement,and Sense of Community; 11 The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg; 12 The Not So Global Village of Netville
• 13 Email,Gender,and Personal Relationships14 Belonging in Geographic,Ethnic,and Internet Spaces; Part V The Internet at School,Work,and Home; 15 Bringing the Internet Home:Adult Distance Learners and Their Internet,Home,and Work Worlds; 16 Where Home is the Office:The New Form of Flexible Work; 17 Kerala Connections:Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas?; 18 Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline; 19 Experience and Trust in Online Shopping; Index
• 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.
• English