Understanding the Internet

A Socio-Cultural Perspective

AvBridgette Wessels

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

The Internet is an everyday part of our contemporary lives. This book explores how it is shaped and embedded within society, fostering new social worlds and ways of talking. Using a wide range of examples to examine economic, political and cultural issues, this book is crucial reading for all those studying society, media and technology.

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Utgivningsdatum:2009-09-16
Mått:155 x 235 x 13 mm
Vikt:386 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780230517349

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BRIDGETTE WESSELS is Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her writing and research focuses on social and cultural change, particularly in relation to ICT and the Internet. She teaches courses on the ICT, Internet and Society at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Innehållsförteckning

Assessing the Internet as Socio-Cultural FormsThe Cultural History of the InternetCultural Forms and Socio-Technical ChangeThe Socio-Cultural Environment of the InternetWork and the InternetPublic Policy and the InternetExclusions, Inclusion and the InternetCulture, Everyday Life and the InternetCyber-Cultures and the InternetThe Communications Environment and the InternetConclusionNotesGlossar.