ISBN:
9780335229581
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (191 pages)
Series Statement:
Sociology and Social Change
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Cavanagh, Allison Sociology in the age of the Internet
DDC:
303.4834
Keywords:
Internet -- Social aspects
;
Information society
;
Computers and civilization
;
Electronic books ; local
;
Computers and civilization
;
Information society
;
Internet ; Social aspects
;
Electronic books
;
Internet
;
Soziologie
;
Informationsgesellschaft
;
Internet
;
Sozialer Wandel
Abstract:
There has been a diverse body of writing from scholars in the social sciences who have been studying changes brought about by communication technologies in general and the Internet in particular. This title evaluates the work in this area and is suitable for academics and students interested in the relationship between the internet and society.
Abstract:
Front cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Series editor's preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part One The rise of the network metaphor -- Chapter 1 Approaches to networks -- Chapter 2 Network methodologies -- Chapter 3 The network society -- Chapter 4 The internet as a network -- Part Two The internet as a medium -- Introduction to Part Two -- Chapter 5 Elements of a public sphere -- Chapter 6 Interactivity: it's got to be jelly 'cos jam don't shake like that -- Chapter 7 The global public sphere and forms of power -- Part Three The internet as a social space -- Introduction to Part Three -- Chapter 8 Community -- Chapter 9 Online identity -- Conclusion to Part Three -- Part Four The internet as a technology -- Introduction to Part Four -- Chapter 10 Sociologies oftechnology -- Chapter 11 The sociology of technology and the internet emergent perspectives -- References -- Index -- Back cover.
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