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. INDICE: 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 andthe 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 - Glossary
- ISBN: 978-0-230-51734-9
- Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 248
- Fecha Publicación: 16/09/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés