Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet
Author: Mia Consalvo
Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
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Internet Society
Author: Maria Bakardjieva
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2005-05-20
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780761943396
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Internet Society investigates Internet use and its implications for society through insights into the daily experiences of ordinary users. Drawing on an original study of non-professional, 'ordinary' users at home, this book examines how people interpret, domesticate, and creatively appropriate the Internet by integrating it into the projects and activities of their everyday lives.
The Internet in Everyday Life
Author: Barry Wellman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 624
ISBN-13: 0470777389
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
The Internet for Women
Author: Rye Senjen
Publisher: Spinifex Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9781875559527
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors set out to demystify the Internet and put it into a context that makes it relevant and accessible to as many women as possible. It is for women who are just starting to explore the possibilities of the Internet, as well as seasoned users. Technological explanations have been kept to a minimum as they are rarely necessary in order to use a particular Internet service successfully. The book contains 'how to' advice on using the most common Internet services, as well as information you will need to get Internet access. The book also covers topics not covered in more general books on the Internet: gender issues, pornography, sexual harassment, anonymity, privacy and security. To put the Internet into a more women-centred perspective the authors have included a chapter that introduces our computing foremothers and describes how some women have already begun to make the Internet an integral part of their lives.
Electronic Tribes
Author: Tyrone L. Adams
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2008-06
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0292717741
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From MySpace.com to Nigerian e-mail scams, sixteen competitively selected essays inquire into the causes and consequences of the "tribes" that are facilitated by the Internet.
Handbook of Research on Social Interaction Technologies and Collaboration Software: Concepts and Trends
Author: Dumova, Tatyana
Publisher: IGI Global
Published: 2009-07-31
Total Pages: 938
ISBN-13: 1605663697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book explores the origin, structure, purpose, and function of socially interactive technologies known as social software"--Provided by publisher.
Postcolonial Politics, The Internet and Everyday Life
Author: M.I. Franklin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-05-02
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1134301243
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this ground-breaking study M.I. Franklin explores the form and substance of everyday life online from a critical postcolonial perspective. With Internet access and social media uses accelerating in the Global South, in-depth studies of just how non-western communities, at home and living abroad, actually use the Internet and web-based media are still relatively few. This book’s pioneering use of virtual ethnography and mixed method research in this study of a longstanding ‘media diaspora’ incorporates online participant-observation with offline fieldwork to explore how postcolonial diasporas from the south Pacific have been using the Internet since the early ways of the web. Through a critical reconsideration of the work of Michel de Certeau in light of postcolonial and feminist theories, the book provides insights into the practice of everyday life in a global and digital age by non-western participants online and offline. Critical of techno- and media-centric analyses of cyberspatial practices and power hierarchies, Franklin argues that a closer look at the content and communicative styles of these contemporary Pacific traversals suggest other Internet futures. These are visions of social media that can be more hospitable, culturally inclusive and economically equitable than those promulgated by both powerful commercial interests and state actors looking to take charge of the Internet ‘after Web 2.0’. The book will be of interest to students of international politics, media and communications, cultural studies, science and technology studies, anthropology and sociology interested in how successive waves of new media interact with shifting power relations at the intersection of politics, culture, and society.
Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology
Author: Adam Joinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2007-04-12
Total Pages: 517
ISBN-13: 0198568002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Over one billion people use the Internet globally. Psychologists are beginning to understand what people do online, and the impact being online has on behaviour. It's making us re-think many of our existing assumptions about what it means to be a social being. For instance, if we can talk, flirt, meet people and fall in love online, this challenges many of psychology's theories that intimacy or understanding requires physical co-presence."The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology" brings together many of the leading researchers in what can be termed 'Internet Psychology'. Though a very new area of research, it is growing at a phenomenal pace. In addition to well-studied areas of investigation, such as social identity theory, computer-mediated communication and virtual communities, the volume also includes chapters on topics as diverse as deception and misrepresentation, attitude change and persuasion online, Internetaddiction, online relationships, privacy and trust, health and leisure use of the Internet, and the nature of interactivity.With over 30 chapters written by experts in the field, the range and depth of coverage is unequalled, and serves to define this emerging area of research. Uniquely, this content is supported by an entire section covering the use of the Internet as a research tool, including qualitative and quantitative methods, online survey design, personality testing, ethics, and technological and design issues. While it is likely to be a popular research resource to be 'dipped into', as a whole volume it iscoherent and compelling enough to act as a single text book."The Oxford Handbook of Internet Psychology" is the definitive text on this burgeoning field. It will be an essential resource for anyone interested in the psychological aspects of Internet use, or planning to conduct research using the 'net'.
Routledge Handbook of Internet Politics
Author: Andrew Chadwick
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-08-18
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1134087543
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive set of resources, this Handbook provides linkages to established theories of media and politics, political communication, governance, deliberative democracy and social movements, all within an interdisciplinary context. Containing the latest survey data, the contributors form a strong international cast of established and junior scholars.
Gender, Health and Information Technology in Context
Author: E. Balka
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-10-09
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 0230245390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume breaks new ground by asking how our understandings of gender can be informed by exploring the socio-technical relations of ICTs in health care, and how far an appreciation of the ways in which gender works can inform and improve our understanding of how ICTs are being developed, implemented, and used in health care contexts.
