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Human perspectives in the Internet society: Culture, psychology and gender

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Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2006
Tongue: English
Weight: 209 KB
Volume: 58
Category: Article
ISSN: 1532-2882
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20481

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✦ Synopsis

The purpose of this volume is to bring together various analyses by international scholars of the social and cultural impact of information technology on individuals and societies (preface, n.p.). It grew from the First International Conference on Human Perspectives in the Internet Society held in Cadiz, Spain, in 2004. The editors and contributors have addressed an impressive array of significant issues with rigorous research and insightful analysis although the resulting volume does suffer from the usual unevenness in depth and content that affects books based on conference proceedings. Although the $256 price is prohibitive for many individual scholars, the effort to obtain a library edition for perusal regarding particular areas of interest is likely to prove worthwhile.

Unlike many international conferences that are able to attract scholars from only a handful of nations, this genuinely diverse conference included research conducted in Australia,

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