The Internet in Everyday Life

✍ Scribed by Barry Wellman, Caroline Haythornthwaite

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 622
• Series: Information Age Series
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives.

• Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.
• Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.
• Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.
• Studies are based on empirical data.
• Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fears about the future effects of the Internet.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 7
List of Figures......Page 10
List of Tables......Page 12
List of Contributors......Page 17
Foreword:The Virtual Community in the Real World......Page 29
Series Editor ’s Preface:The Internet and the Network Society......Page 31
Part I Moving the Internet out of Cyberspace......Page 35
The Internet in Everyday Life:An Introduction......Page 37
Part II The Place of the Internet in Everyday Life......Page 77
1 Days and Nights on the Internet......Page 79
2 The Global Villagers:Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World......Page 108
3 Syntopia:Access,Civic Involvement,and Social Interaction on the Net......Page 148
4 Digital Living:The Impact (or Otherwise)of the Internet on Everyday British Life......Page 173
5 The Changing Digital Divide in Germany......Page 198
6 Doing Social Science Research Online......Page 220
Part III Finding Time for the Internet......Page 247
7 Internet Use,Interpersonal Relations,and Sociability: A Time Diary Study......Page 249
8 The Internet and Other Uses of Time......Page 278
9 Everyday Communication Patterns of Heavy and Light Email Users......Page 297
Part IV The Internet in the Community......Page 323
10 Capitalizing on the Net:Social Contact,Civic Engagement,and Sense of Community......Page 325
11 The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg......Page 359
12 The Not So Global Village of Netville......Page 379
13 Email,Gender,and Personal Relationships......Page 406
14 Belonging in Geographic,Ethnic,and Internet Spaces......Page 438
Part V The Internet at School,Work,and Home......Page 463
15 Bringing the Internet Home:Adult Distance Learners and Their Internet,Home,and Work Worlds......Page 465
16 Where Home is the Office:The New Form of Flexible Work......Page 498
17 Kerala Connections:Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas?......Page 530
18 Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline......Page 554
19 Experience and Trust in Online Shopping......Page 583
Index......Page 612