The Internet in Everyday Life

Herausgeber: Wellman, Barry; Haythornthwaite, Caroline

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Produktbeschreibung

The Internet in Everyday Life brings together many pioneering studies that systematically investigate how being online fits into everyday lives. Until now, the Internet has been treated and discussed as detached from daily life, occupying some separate sphere of social endeavor. This collection of original articles from leading scholars in North America, Asia, and Europe moves discussion of the Internet closer to home, showing how the Internet does not exist "out there" but is instead an integral part of daily work and home life. Contributors show who is on the Internet and what they are doing there. They debate whether the Internet adds to or detracts from the well-being of individuals, communities, and societies. They demonstrate how the Internet affects friendship, social capital, social support, civic involvement, school, work, and shopping. They reveal the extent to which the Internet is supporting new forms of human relationships, and describe what gets dropped and strained when Internet hours are added to already full schedules. The book goes beyond speculation to provide solid findings. Articles are informed by results from surveys, interviews, and ethnographic data about behavior on and with the Internet. Taken as a whole, this considered body of evidence should raise the level of debate about the impact of the Internet and raises serious questions about the popular myth that Internet use increases social alienation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 624
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1094g
• ISBN-13: 9780631235071
• ISBN-10: 0631235078
• Artikelnr.: 21823499

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures.
List of Tables.
Foreword: The Virtual Community in the Real World. (Howard Rheingold).
Series Editor's Preface: The Internet and the Network Society . (Manuel
Castells).
Introduction: The Internet in Everyday Life. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and
Barry Wellman).
Part I: Moving The Internet Out Of Cyberspace.
The internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction. (Caroline Haythornthwaite
and Barry Wellman).
Part II: The Place Of The Internet In Everyday Life.
1. Days and Nights on the Internet. (Philip Howard, Lee Rainie, and Steve
Jones).
2 The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World.
(Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman).
3 Syntopia: Access, Civic Involvement and Social Interaction on the Net.
(James Katz and Ronald Rice).
4 Digital Living: The Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet in Everyday
British Life. (Ben Anderson and Karina Tracey).
5 The Changing Digital Divide in Germany. (Gert Wagner, Rainer Pischner and
John Haisken-DeNew).
6 Doing Social Science Research Online . (Alan Neustadtl, John Robinson and
Meyer Kestnbaum).
Part III: Finding Time For The Internet.
7 Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations and Sociability: A Time Diary
Study. (Norman Nie, D. Sunshine Hillygus and Lutz Erbring).
8 The Internet and Other Uses of Time. (John Robinson, Meyer Kestnbaum,
Alan Neustadtl and Anthony Alvarez).
9 Everyday Communication Patterns of Heavy and Light Email Users. (Janell
Copher, Alaina Kanfer and Mary Bea Walker).
Part IV: The Internet In The Community.
10 Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement and Sense of
Community. (Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman).
11 The Impact of Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community
Involvement in Blacksburg. (Andrea Kavanaugh and Scott Patterson).
12 The Not So Global Village of Netville. (Keith Hampton and Barry
Wellman).
13 Gender and Personal Relationships in HomeNet. (Bonka Boneva and Robert
Kraut).
14 Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces. (Sorin Matei and
Sandra Ball-Rokeach).
Part V: The Internet At School, Work And Home.
15 Bringing the Internet Home: Adult distance learners and their Internet,
Home and Work worlds. (Caroline Haythornthwaite and Michelle Kazmer).
16 Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work. (Janet Salaff).
17 Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing
Areas?. (Teresa Davidson, R. Sooryamoorthy and Wesley Shrum).
18 Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline . (Kakuko
Miyata).
19 Shopping Behavior Online. (Robert Lunn and Michael Suman).
Index

Rezensionen

"Wellman is to be congratulated for pulling together a collectionof excellent articles that will make a valuable contribution toempirically grounding discussions about the effects of the Interneton our everyday life experiences." Communication &Society

"Its breadth, depth and empiricism make for an immenselyimpressive collection which is likely to influence the field ofinternet studies for years to come" New Media andSociety

"Work like that done in The Internet in Everyday Life isinvaluable in helping us see and understand the technological worldin which we are immersed. As such, it makes a major contribution toour discipline and our society." ContemporarySociology

"A powerful collective statement both about the domestication ofthe Internet in everyday life and about the need for new kinds ofquestions and methodologies in the next generation of Internetstudies." Social Forces