Experiencing Broadband Society
©2010
Edited Collection
208 Pages
Series:
Participation in Broadband Society, Volume 2
Summary
This volume represents a collection of recent thinking and research on the social and cultural aspects of contemporary broadband societies by exploring the social experiences and practices of using new information and communication technologies (ICT) within different contexts and domains of the emerging broadband society. It offers a compendium of the latest thoughts and questions on digitally mediated citizenship, networked identity, and sociality in the 21st Century and covers four main themes and empirical areas of research: uses and practices of new media, with particular focus on underprivileged groups, new media and the social differentiation of their use, ICT use and sustainable development, and finally new technologies, new challenges.
Details
- Pages
- 208
- Publication Year
- 2010
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631584064
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Interpersonal Communication Social Software E-Democracy Digital Communication Information Society
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 208 pp.
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