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This book presents the latest in research on communication and information technologies, including chapters demonstrating the maturation of work on measurement, investigating user behaviour, and delving into the new terrain of theorizing social media use.
This book was originally published as a special issue of
Information, Communication & Society.
List of contents
1. Hitting middle age never felt so good: introduction to the American Sociological Association Communication and Information Technologies section 2013 Jennifer Earl and Katrina Kimport 2. Testing the validity of social capital measures in the study of information and communication technologies Lora Appel, Punit Dadlani, Maria Dwyer, Keith Hampton, Vanessa Kitzie, Ziad A. Matni, Patricia Moore and Rannie Teodoro 3. Dimensions of Internet use: amount, variety, and types Grant Blank and Darja Groselj 4. Twitter publics: how online political communities signaled electoral outcomes in the 2010 US house election Karissa McKelvey, Joseph DiGrazia and Fabio Rojas 5. No praise without effort: experimental evidence on how rewards affect Wikipedia’s contributor community Michael Restivo and Arnout van de Rijt 6. Need to know vs. need to share: information technology and the intersecting work of police, fire and paramedics Carrie B. Sanders 7. Context collapse: theorizing context collusions and collisions Jenny L. Davis and Nathan Jurgenson 8. Are we all equally at home socializing online? Cyberasociality and evidence for an unequal distribution of disdain for digitally-mediated sociality Zeynep Tufekci and Matthew E. Brashears 9. Revisiting the digital divide in Canada: the impact of demographic factors on access to the internet, level of online activity, and social networking site usage Michael Haight, Anabel Quan-Haase and Bradley A. Corbett
About the author
Jennifer Earl is a Professor of Sociology at the University of Arizona, USA. She is also Director Emerita of the Center for Information Technology and Society at University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on social movements, information technologies, and the sociology of law.
Katrina Kimport is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science and a research sociologist in the Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health (ANSIRH) program at the University of California, San Francisco, USA. Her research focuses on gender, sexuality, and social movements.
Summary
This book presents the latest in research on communication and information technologies, including chapters demonstrating the maturation of work on measurement, investigating user behaviour, and delving into the new terrain of theorizing social media use. This book was originally published as a special issue of Information, Communication & Society.
