The Internet in Everyday Life
Caroline Haythornthwaite editor Barry Wellman editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Published:22nd Nov '02
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
"Wellman is to be congratulated for pulling together a collection of excellent articles that will make a valuable contribution to empirically grounding discussions about the effects of the Internet on our everyday life experiences." Communication & Society
"Its breadth, depth and empiricism make for an immensely impressive collection which is likely to influence the field of internet studies for years to come" New Media and Society
"Work like that done in The Internet in Everyday Life is invaluable in helping us see and understand the technological world in which we are immersed. As such, it makes a major contribution to our discipline and our society." Contemporary Sociology
"A powerful collective statement both about the domestication of the Internet in everyday life and about the need for new kinds of questions and methodologies in the next generation of Internet studies." Social Forces
ISBN: 9780631235071
Dimensions: 237mm x 159mm x 38mm
Weight: 992g
624 pages