Understanding the Internet: A Socio-Cultural Perspective

Author:   Bridgette Wessels
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:  

9780230517332


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 September 2009
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Bridgette Wessels
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Red Globe Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.520kg
ISBN:  

9780230517332


ISBN 10:   0230517331
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   16 September 2009
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained

Table 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.

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BRIDGETTE WESSELS is Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her writing and research focuses on social and cultural change, particularly in relation to ICT and the Internet. She teaches courses on the ICT, Internet and Society at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

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