Understanding the internet
Subtitle: a socio-cultural perspective
By: Bridgette Wessels.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780230517349
Subjects: Internet -- Social aspects
Description: Explores how the internet is shaped and embedded within society, fostering new social worlds and ways of talking by using a wide range of examples to examine economic, political and cultural issues.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 202-222) and index.
Table of contents: title: Addressing the internet as socio-cultural forms; title: The cultural history of the internet; title: Cultural forms and socio-technical change; title: The socio-cultural environment of the internet; title: Work and the internet; title: Public policy and the internet; title: Exclusion, inclusion and the internet; title: Culture, everyday life and the internet; title: Cyber cultures and the internet; title: The communication environment and the internet.