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Author : Maria Bakardjieva
Edition : 1
Number of Pages : 232
Publisher : Sage Publications Ltd
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Product Description `A highly topical, interesting and lively analysis of ordinary Internet use, based on both theoretically competent reflections and sound ethnographic material' - Joost van Loon, Reader in Social Theory at Nottingham Trent University 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. Maria Bakardjieva's theoretical framework uniquely combines concepts from several schools of thought (social constructivism, critical theory, phenomenological sociology) to provide a conception of the user as an agent in the field of technological development and new media shaping. She: - examines the evolution of the Internet into a mass medium - interrogates what users make of this new communication medium - evaluates the social and cultural role of the Internet by looking at the immediate level of users' engagement with it - exposes the dual life of technology as invader and captive; colonizer and colonized This book will appeal to academics and researchers in social studies of technology, communication and media studies, cultural studies, philosophy of technology and ethnography. Customer reviews easy and powerful usages by .. W Boudville (Terra, Sol 3)
This is not a book about technology, per se, but about how a mass audience of users can assimilate it into their lives. In a sense, the book describes a cusp. Ten years ago, when the Web was still young, it was mainly the technologically adept who used it. But now, in the developed countries, and increasingly in many developing countries, it is a mass medium. It has gotten this way partly by being easy to use. But also because powerful usages have emerged, that are attractive to many. Like searching for information, or auctions.
The book offers insight into how this incorporation is proceeding. With suggestions as to future directions. Possibly driven by more [unexpected?] usages that have yet to be developed.
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Number of Pages : 588
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
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Product Description 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.
Customer reviews Use of Internet for Non-business and non-workplace Scenarios  by .. Dr. Mohamed Taher (Toronto)
The comment on editor (using the reviewer's sacred space) is not out of place. Amazon has a different logic to treat people. In the previous incarnation amazon.com had an option for author's to comment. Now, I presume, it is turned into Guide.
amazon.co.uk and amazon.ca have differences in this regard, and in the ultimate this strategy (of sorts) hurts the authors, reviewers, commentators, etc.
Internet in Everyday Life is a kind of book that I could lay my hands, on the very day it appeared in the market.
--- Comments forthcoming --- I will be back soon and give a full picture of the book, its structure, approach and value for the every day life.
Shouldn't the editor identify himself in a review?  by .. ()
I'm sure this is a good book but I'd like to see truth in advertising!
The real world of the Internet -- from the Co-Editor by .. Barry Wellman (Toronto, Ont Canada)
[Note: For some reason, another "reviewer" from Troy NY mad the dispariging comment, "Shouldn't the editor identify himself in a review?" But, I did and continue to do so, in the title of this little statement. My "review" is really a guide + a Table of Contents) to what the book is about. So I don't understand this person's comment. BW] The guide and TOC start here> _The Internet in Everyday Life_ is about the second age of the Internet as it descends from the firmament and becomes embedded in everyday life. The first age of the Internet was a bright light shining above everyday concerns. In the euphoria, many analysts lost their perspective. The rapid contraction of the dot.com economy has brought down to earth the once-euphoric belief in the infinite possibility of Internet life. It is not as if the Internet disappeared. Instead, the light that dazzled overhead has become embedded in everyday things. A reality check is now underway about where the Internet fits into the ways in which people behave offline as well as online. We are moving from a world of Internet wizards to a world of ordinary people routinely using the Internet as an embedded part of their lives. It has become clear that the Internet is a very important thing, but not a special thing. It is being used more -by more people, in more countries, in more ways. This book is a harbinger of a new way of thinking about the Internet: not as a special system but as routinely incorporated into everyday life. The studies presented here begin the tasks of broadening our focus from the Internet to the social worlds in which it is embroiled. The research in this book focuses on the relationship between the Internet and interpersonal relationships. It speaks to issues about the social consequences of adding the Internet to our daily lives. It explores how the Internet affects social and communal behaviors. The studies address key questions about the impact of the Internet on friendships, civic involvement, and time spent with others.
Who is online and who is coming online (and not coming)?
How much time do they spend online?
How does the Internet affect relationships within households, and with amily, friends, voluntary organizations, schoolmates, and workmates? The research presented suggests that the Internet has accentuated a change towards a networked society: a turn toward living in networks rather than in groups. The personalization, portability, ubiquitous connectivity, and imminent wireless mobility of the Internet all facilitate networked individualism as the basis of community. Table of Contents: The Virtual Community in the Real World, by Howard Rheingold The Internet and the Network Society, by Manuel Castells Part I - Moving the Internet out of Cyberspace The Internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction, by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman Part II - The Place of the Internet in Everyday Life 1. Days and Nights on the Internet, by Philip E. N. Howard, Lee Rainie, and Steve Jones 2. The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World, by Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase, and Barry Wellman 3. Syntopia: Access, Civic Involvement, and Social Interaction on the Net, James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice 4. Digital Living: The Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet on Everyday British Life, Ben Anderson and Karina Tracey 5. The Changing Digital Divide in Germany, Gert G. Wagner, Rainer Pischner, and John P. Haisken-DeNew 6. Doing Social Science Research Online, Alan Neustadtl, John P. Robinson, and Meyer Kestnbaum Part III - Finding Time for the Internet 7. Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study, by Norman H. Nie, D. Sunshine Hillygus, and Lutz Erbring 8. The Internet and Other Uses of Time, by John P. Robinson, Meyer Kestnbaum, Alan Neustadtl, and Anthony S. Alvarez 9. Everyday Communication Patters of Heavy and Light Email Users, Janell I. Copher, Alaina G. Kanfer, and Mary Bea Walker Part IV - The Internet in the Community 10. Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement, and Sense of Community, by Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman, with James C. Witte and Keith N. Hampton 11. The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg, Andrea L. Kavanaugh and Scott J. Patterson 12. The Not So Global Village of Netville, Keith N. Hampton and Barry Wellman 13. Email, Gender, and Personal Relationships, Bonka Boneva and Robert Kraut 14. Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces, Sorin Matei and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach Part V - The Internet at School, Work, and Home 15. Bringing the Internet Home: Adult Distance Learners and Their Internet, Home, and Work Worlds, by Caroline Haythornthwaite and Michelle M. Kazmer 16. Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work, by Janet W. Salaff 17. Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas? Theresa Davidson, R. Sooryamoorthy, and Wesley Shrum 18. Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline, by Kakuko Miyata 19. Experience and Trust in Online Shopping, by Robert J. Lunn and Michael W. Suman
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Author : Peter Weverka
Edition : 3
Number of Pages : 624
Publisher : For Dummies
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Product Description The Internet made its way into everyday life as a tool people used occasionally to keep in touch with friends and gather information for personal or business needs. Now, thanks to high-speed connections, wireless access, and safe and powerful Web sites, the Internet has become the main means for handling personal finance, shopping for big-ticket items, and communicating with people around the world. It's to the point where many people can't get through the day without turning to the Internet to get things accomplished. The Everyday Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is the complete resource for casual Internet users who are looking to make the jump to becoming experienced navigators of the wired world. Written by Internet guru Peter Weverka, this book walks readers through the basics of going online before heading into the realms of online bargain shopping, bill paying, personal finance, keeping up with hobbies, and even setting up an online business. * The material is broken into mini-books that make it easier to find an answer and keep moving along the online highway * This book clarifies all the mysteries of how to use the Internet to make everyday life simpler * Covers key Internet properties like eBay, Google, and Yahoo! as well as favorite tasks like playing games, tracing family roots, and keeping a diary online Customer reviews Internet for Dummies by .. S. Rosefelt (longwood fl.)
I have obtained a new Acer PC with CD & DVD capabilities and basically no little about computers and the intetrnet. Through Amazon I was able to obtainn Internet for Dummies book at a reasonable price and find the book quite helpful. I highly recommend "Dummies" and dealing with Amazon. Good service and prices.
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Can't ask for better book: "The Everyday Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies (For Dummies)" by .. Samuel A. Turks ()
I've first checked this book out from the Chicago Public Library three times and once kept it two months after the book check out expired. The I purchased the book myself. I can not offer enough praise for this well researched and written book on the Internet. This is definitely the "Book" for pros and "dummies" alike.
I have been working in technology for eighteen years with the U.S. Navy and using the Internet for nine years now and admittedly I only possessed about less 10% of the available resources that was presented in this book. Just visiting and bookmarking all those interesting link to various useful Web sites was good enough for me (100+ useful bookmarks from this book alone).
My college textbooks and other "big computer books" weren't as valuable as this one. With this new gained knowledge, I've referred this book to my instructor for the "Basic Internet Class" that I took at the one of the City Colleges of Chicago (Truman College) and my fellow classmates agreed that this book "The Everyday Internet All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies" was more informative than our classroom resources and textbook. Buy this book if you want to REALLY learn something about this subject.
One final thought, read Mr. Peter Weverka's "The Internet Giga Book for Dummies". You won't be disappointed in my recommendation on this wonderful read. Peace out and take care.
Excellent!! by .. Jason R. Bunner (Fishers, IN)
You'll learn more practical information about "everything internet" within the pages of this book than 7 years of online meandering. Seriously, just buy this sucker cause it provides clear answers to questions you don't even know you have yet, or should have. Excellent book. Truly a horizon broadener.
Great book by Prolific Technical Writer by .. JimBob JoeBob (San Francisco, CA)
I turn to this book all the time for information on how to build and maintain my blog (phatmike.motime.com). The best, most informative book that I've ever read on the subject.
Thanks, Mister Weverka!!!
JimBob Joe
Master Blogger
Explore the best and brightest Web sites and services by .. Peter W. ()
Pardon me for being immodest and giving this book a 5-star rating, since I'm the author, but I believe this is the best book going about the latest incarnation of the Internet.
These are exciting times for the Internet. Peer-to-peer file sharing, news aggregators, and other advances in technology have inspired a new generation of Web sites and services. Never before has the Internet offered so many ways to conduct research, entertain yourself, or learn new things.
The motive behind this book is to present everything on the Internet that's worth doing because it's useful, it's a lot of fun, or it's innovative and therefore worth checking out. Close to a thousand different Web sites are described in this book, but this book isn't a directory of Web sites. The focus is on doing things -- researching, online banking, communicating, making new friends, playing games, talking over the Internet telephone, online shopping, online selling, and blogging.
In the course of describing these and other activities -- everyday activities that can be part of your Internet repertoire -- I introduce you to the best and brightest of the Internet.
For those who are interested, this book looks at the technical aspects of the Internet. It tells you how to select an ISP and gives you instructions for connecting your computer to the Internet. The book explains how to protect your privacy and security, and keep viruses and spyware at bay, as well as how to use the different plug-ins (Flash, Acrobat Reader, and others). You will find advice for making the Internet a safe and rewarding experience for children, many Web sites for children and parents, and instructions for using America Online.
Find out how to use a Web browser and how to be an Internet researcher, or better yet, an Internet detective from this book. It explains search techniques for reaching into all corners of the Internet to quickly find the information you need. You discover how to get the latest news and how to stay on top of late-breaking news with aggregators, as well as how to use different e-mail programs (some free and some not). You get definitive instructions in this book for preventing your inbox from being inundated with spam.
Look to this book to refine instant messenger programs, create a blog, and find mailing lists and message boards where you can exercise your obsessions. You find out how to conduct research in newsgroups and subscribe to newsgroups, as well as how to join or create your own Yahoo! group and chat on the IRC.
For budding Web site developers, this book demonstrates how to create a Web site on the cheap and how to submit a Web site to search engines so the site gets more hits. You also explore the social networking phenomenon and learn about Web sites and services where you can make new friends and reunite with old ones. The book has detailed instructions for setting up your computer so you can make free long-distance telephone calls over the Internet.
I devote part of the book to online finances -- how to research investments and get the latest financial news, maintain an online investment portfolio, and do your banking chores online.
You will find many shopping search engines and Web sites that specialize in comparison-shopping, as well as online catalogs, stores for bargain hunters, consumer-report Web sites, and an "online shopping bazaar" with hundreds of off-beat online shops worth visiting. I take you to a number of online auction houses, including eBay, and you discover how to search for, bid on, and buy items at bargain prices, as well as how to pay for items with the excellent PayPal service.
You find out how to be the first on your block to be an online seller and how you can make money by selling or conducting a business over the Internet.
Finally, the book looks into different Internet pastimes and pursuits. I'm warning you: Some of these activities are addictive. You discover the many excellent genealogical research Web sites and how to conduct genealogical research for free over the Internet. The book also looks at games sites, including novel games such as Geocaching. For travelers and armchair-adventurers, I direct you to Web sites where you can get travel advice, plan vacations, purchase tickets, and book hotel rooms and rental cars. You discover how to turn your lowly computer into an entertainment console by purchasing music online or sharing music files.
I am intrigued by the idea that a Web site is a creative endeavor in and of itself -- that a Web site is a clickable piece of artwork. For this book, I chose not only Web sites that are useful for finding information or buying things but also Web sites that I consider intriguing, wonderful, astonishing, bizarre, or entertaining.
Some people are calling this latest incarnation of the Internet "the Web 2.0." This book is your guide to the next incarnation of the Internet. It was written to show you how to make the Internet fun and useful again.
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Number of Pages : 322
Publisher : Peter Lang Publishing
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Customer reviews from the back cover by .. ()
"This eclectic international collection provides a needed infusion of energy into the study of gender and the Internet. The contributors use a range of theories, approaches, and research sites to collectively demonstrate how much gender matters to Internet users in their everyday lives, and how much it should matter to anyone concerned with social dimensions of the Internet."
--Nancy Baym, Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas "This book is a highly worthwhile collection of essays on women in new media. It avoids much of the problems of earlier work that either celebrated cyber-space as a feminine domain or vilified it as a masculine space of expanded patriarchal culture. Women & Everyday Uses of the Internet is refreshing by comparison in exploring the diversity of women's various practices in cyber-space as well as the differences among the women who are online. This book is warmly recommended to those interested in this important topic."
--Mark Poster, Director and Professor of Film Studies, Professor of History, University of California, Irvine This book investigates the forms and codes of the Internet as a popular medium and the ways in which women figure as users, content producers, and target audiences. Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this book addresses issues of gendered identity and agency in the wider framework of consumer culture and uses of new media. Individual chapters explore personal and commercial web sites for women, constructions of lesbian identity, communities of female consumers and Vietnam veterans, women's web cam sites, educational experiences and information society agendas, the possibilities of design, conceptions of digital television, as well as wider media attention to the Internet and women. These case studies provide rich insights into the uses of the Internet as an everyday medium and the varying locations and forms of its gendered use.
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Author : Michelle McGarry
Number of Pages : 327
Release Date : 2000-10-10
Publisher : AuthorHouse
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Product Description Ever dreamed of starting an online business? The Internet Idea Book describes 101 Internet business ideas for the everyday ordinary person. Written especially for the individual entrepreneur, it can help you brainstorm which business might be right for you. Customer reviews Awful by .. Brian E. Essig (Hoboken, NJ)
Don't buy this item. All it is is 70 pages of writing space. If you want what this book has go to dollar store and get a 100 ream of notebook paper. There are no unique or interusting ideas....all ideas that have been drained by the market place.
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Author : Nicole Boldt
Number of Pages : 4
Release Date : 2005-07-28
Publisher : Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne
Company : The Gale Group
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Product Description This digital document is an article from Melbourne Journal of Politics, published by Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne on January 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1114 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: The Internet in Everyday Life.(Book Review) Author: Nicole Boldt Publication: Melbourne Journal of Politics (Magazine/Journal) Date: January 1, 2001 Publisher: Department of Political Science, University of Melbourne Volume: 28 Page: 94(3) Article Type: Book Review Distributed by Thomson Gale Related Search : journal politics , review article , from melbourne
Author : Marian Franklin
Edition : 1
Number of Pages : 272
Publisher : Routledge
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Product Description The dotcom boom may well have come and gone but information and communication technologies (ICTs) are now an inescapable part of both everyday life and world politics. In this close-up study of several longstanding Internet discussion forums, M.I. Franklin explores the form and substance of everyday life online. The author traces how non-Western diasporas use the Internet to talk productively about local and global politics, cultural issues, and identity in an era dominated by neoliberal globalization. The openings for intercultural and intracultural empowerment, online and also on the ground, that emerge through ordinary people's uses of the Internet are being squeezed out, however, by powerful political economic and sociocultural interests from above and below.Franklin argues that a closer look at the content and communicative styles of these Pacific traversals online suggest other Internet futures; more hospitable, culturally inclusive and economically equitable than the one currently being put in place by vested economic interests and political power elites. This book will be of interest to students of international relations, social sciences, cultural studies, science and technology studies. Related Search : internet everyday , postcolonial politics , life pacific ![ICTs, social thinking and subjective well-being - The internet and its representations in everyday life [An article from: Computers in Human Behavior]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/418ZTJJV5WL._SL160_.jpg) |
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Author : A. Contarello
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Product Description This digital document is a journal article from Computers in Human Behavior, published by Elsevier in 2007. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Description: The spread of ICTs constitutes an intriguing phenomenon for studying the interweaving between ways of knowing, thinking and experiencing new 'realities'. A suitable framework for investigating this topic is the social representations one, which addresses socially shared structures of knowledge, loaded with emotional features and symbolic values. In the present study, we explore how the internet is represented and how it is related to social well-being. The number of participants was 101. The components of the representation - information, attitude, representational field - were investigated using a qualitative-quantitative methodology; social well-being (in general, and after the internet entered one's own life) was measured through Keyes' scale [Social Well-Being. Social Psychology Quarterly, 61(2), 121-140]; levels of practice were also taken into account. Participants show a medium-high level of social well-being in its various components (integration, acceptance, contribution, actualisation and coherence). A more complex picture appears 'after internet', with gains in terms of closeness, contribution, actualisation of society, counterbalanced by diminished trust in people and resort to one's own group for security and comfort. The representational field opposes an intimate picture to a wider perspective; space to time; functional to experiential features of the internet. Participants take different positions on these dimensions, providing foreseen and unexpected patterns of images and meanings. Related Search : being internet , thinking subjective , life article
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Author : Bill Bowden
Number of Pages : 3
Release Date : 2005-07-28
Publisher : Journal Publishing, Inc.
Company : The Gale Group
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Product Description This digital document is an article from Arkansas Business, published by Journal Publishing, Inc. on April 3, 2000. The length of the article is 746 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser. Citation DetailsTitle: Everyday Low Verdicts: Internet Site Tracks Wal-Mart Litigation. Author: Bill Bowden Publication: Arkansas Business (Magazine/Journal) Date: April 3, 2000 Publisher: Journal Publishing, Inc. Volume: 17 Issue: 14 Page: 10 Distributed by Thomson Gale Related Search : verdicts internet , from arkansas , litigation article |
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