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Internet in Everyday Life

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Product details

  • ISBN 9780631235071
  • Weight: 992g
  • Dimensions: 159 x 237mm
  • Publication Date: 22 Nov 2002
  • Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

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.
About
Barry Wellman learned to keypunch in 1965 and started chatting online in 1976. Now the head of the University of Toronto's NetLab, he's a leading scholar of cybersociety, community, and social network analysis. Prof. Wellman has pioneered understanding of both communities and computer networks as social networks. He founded the International Network for Social Network Analysis, chaired the Community section of the American Sociological Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of the Association for Internet Research. He's written more than 200 articles and edited two other books. His website has received 20,000 hits in three years.

Caroline Haythornthwaite is a faculty member at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Coordinator of the Undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies. Before returning to full-time study, she spent over 10 years in software development as a programmer, systems analyst, and software development manager. Her research focuses on how people work and learn together at a distance via computer technology and the Internet, and examines what combinations of computer media, and work and social communications build ties and social networks online. Current projects include examination of learning networks and community ties among distance learners, and processes of knowledge co-construction among members of distributed research teams.