Debates for the Digital Age - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Our Online World

Klappentext By evaluating the Internet's impact on key cultural issues of the day! this book provides a comprehensive overview of the seismic technological and cultural shifts the Internet has created in contemporary society. ¿ Includes essays on overarching themes and issues that are essential to understanding Internet culture! including privacy! celebrity! superficiality! and the personal toll online living can have on users ¿ Addresses current Internet material as well as classic memes! sites! and products ¿ Engages readers through a deliberately provocative point of view ¿ Provides a comprehensive examination of the realities surrounding Internet culture! which can be extremely positive or very ugly ¿ Differentiates itself from other examinations of Internet culture through emphasis on continuing themes rather than time-specific content ¿ Takes a distinctly international approach to the topic of today's digital! interconnected world

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• Authors: Simon Collister, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Danielle/ Collister Coombs, Jacqueline Marino
• Assisted by: Simon Collister (Editor), Danielle Sarver Coombs (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2015
• EAN: 9781440801235
• ISBN: 978-1-4408-0123-5
• No. of pages: 620
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research