Understanding the Internet - A Socio-Cultural Perspective

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.>

List of contents

Assessing the Internet as Socio-Cultural Forms
The Cultural History of the Internet
Cultural Forms and Socio-Technical Change
The Socio-Cultural Environment of the Internet
Work and the Internet
Public Policy and the Internet
Exclusions, Inclusion and the Internet
Culture, Everyday Life and the Internet
Cyber-Cultures and the Internet
The Communications Environment and the Internet
Conclusion
Notes
Glossar.

About the author

Bridgette Wessels is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director of the Centre of Interdisciplinary Research in Socio-digital Worlds at the University of Sheffield, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Bridgette Wessels
• Publisher: Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.09.2009
• EAN: 9780230517332
• ISBN: 978-0-230-51733-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); B, Communication, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Mass Media, Media Sociology, communication;environment;Internet;media