INTERNET AND EVERYDAY LIFE
- Editore:
John Wiley & Sons
- Collana:
- Information Age Series
- EAN:
9780631235071
- ISBN:
0631235078
- Pagine:
- 624
- Formato:
- Hardback
- Lingua:
- Inglese
Descrizione INTERNET AND EVERYDAY LIFE
The Internet in Everyday Life brings together many pioneering studies that systematically investigate how being online fits into everyday lives. Until now, the Internet has been treated and discussed as detached from daily life, occupying some separate sphere of social endeavor. This collection of original articles from leading scholars in North America, Asia, and Europe moves discussion of the Internet closer to home, showing how the Internet does not exist "out there" but is instead an integral part of daily work and home life. Contributors show who is on the Internet and what they are doing there. They debate whether the Internet adds to or detracts from the well-being of individuals, communities, and societies. They demonstrate how the Internet affects friendship, social capital, social support, civic involvement, school, work, and shopping. They reveal the extent to which the Internet is supporting new forms of human relationships, and describe what gets dropped and strained when Internet hours are added to already full schedules.
