The Internet in everyday life / edited by Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite. - Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2002. - xxxi, 588 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - The Information Age series . - Information Age series. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: The Virtual Community in the Real World / Series Editor's Preface: The Internet and the Network Society / Moving the Internet out of Cyberspace: The Internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction / The Place of the Internet in Everyday Life -- Days and Nights on the Internet / The Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World / Syntopia: Access, Civic Involvement, and Social Interaction on the Net / Digital Living: The Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet on Everyday British Life / The Changing Digital Divide in Germany / Howard Rheingold -- Manuel Castells -- Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman -- Philip E. N. Howard, Lee Rainie and Steve Jones -- Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase and Barry Wellman -- James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice -- Ben Anderson and Karina Tracey -- Gert G. Wagner, Rainer Pischner and John P. Haisken-DeNew -- Pt. I. Pt. II. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Doing Social Science Research Online / Finding Time for the Internet -- Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations, and Sociability: A Time Diary Study / The Internet and Other Uses of Time / Everyday Communication Patterns of Heavy and Light Email Users / The Internet in the Community -- Capitalizing on the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement, and Sense of Community / The Impact of Community Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg / The Not So Global Village of Netville / Alan Neustadtl, John P. Robinson and Meyer Kestnbaum -- Norman H. Nie, D. Sunshine Hillygus and Lutz Erbring -- John P. Robinson, Meyer Kestnbaum, Alan Neustadtl and Anthony S. Alvarez -- Janell I. Copher, Alaina G. Kanfer and Mary Bea Walker -- Anabel Quan-Haase, Barry Wellman, James C. Witte and Keith N. Hampton -- Andrea L. Kavanaugh and Scott J. Patterson -- Keith N. Hampton and Barry Wellman -- 6. Pt. III. 7. 8. 9. Pt. IV. 10. 11. 12. Email, Gender, and Personal Relationships / Belonging in Geographic, Ethnic, and Internet Spaces / The Internet at School, Work, and Home -- Bringing the Internet Home: Adult Distance Learners and Their Internet, Home, and Work Worlds / Where Home is the Office: The New Form of Flexible Work / Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas? / Social Support for Japanese Mothers Online and Offline / Experience and Trust in Online Shopping / Bonka Boneva and Robert Kraut -- Sorin Matei and Sandra J. Ball-Rokeach -- Caroline Haythornthwaite and Michelle M. Kazmer -- Janet W. Salaff -- Theresa Davidson, R. Sooryamoorthy and Wesley Shrum -- Kakuko Miyata -- Robert J. Lunn and Michael W. Suman. 13. 14. Pt. V. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19.

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Internet--Social aspects.
Internet users.

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