Understanding the internet : a socio-cultural perspective /
by
Wessels, Bridgette
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BookPublisher: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010Description: x, 233 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780230517349 (pbk.); 023051734X (pbk.).Subject(s): Internet -- Social aspects | Gesellschaft | Internet | Soziologie
Contents:
Summary: 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.
Addressing the internet as socio-cultural forms -- The cultural history of the internet -- Cultural forms and socio-technical change -- The socio-cultural environment of the internet -- Work and the internet -- Public policy and the internet -- Exclusion, inclusion and the internet -- Culture, everyday life and the internet -- Cyber cultures and the internet -- The communication environment and the internet.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-222) and index.
Addressing the internet as socio-cultural forms -- The cultural history of the internet -- Cultural forms and socio-technical change -- The socio-cultural environment of the internet -- Work and the internet -- Public policy and the internet -- Exclusion, inclusion and the internet -- Culture, everyday life and the internet -- Cyber cultures and the internet -- The communication environment and the internet.
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.
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