Experiencing Broadband Society: 2 (Participation in Broadband Society) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3631584067 ISBN 13: 9783631584064

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, 2010

Synopsis

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.

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Review

«This volume offers a range of papers on the user experiences with broadband technologies. It avoids fashionable topics and pays special attention to overlooked areas.» (Harmeet Sawhney, Editor-in-Chief, The Information Society)
«This volume offers an impressive collection of empirical research. Drawing on experiences across domains and from around the world, the contributors add substantially to the base of knowledge about what humans do with ever-growing access to digital communication resources. They show just how intensely personal ICTs have become.» (Professor James E. Katz, Director, Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University)
«Deploying perspectives from a variety of social sciences, this volume brings together researchers from around Europe and offers a compendium of the latest thoughts and questions on digitally mediated citizenship, networked identity, and sociality in the 21st Century.» (Professor Richard Harper, Principal Researcher, MSR Cambridge)

About the Author

The Editors: Julian Gebhardt is Visiting Professor at the Faculty for Communication at the University of Arts Berlin (Germany). Hajo Greif is Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Klagenfurt (Austria). Lilia Raycheva is a researcher at the Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication at the St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia (Bulgaria). Claire Lobet-Maris is Senior Professor at the Computer Science Faculty at University of Namur (Belgium). Amparo Lasen is a Lecturer on Political Sociology and Social Movements at the University Complutense of Madrid (Spain).

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 3631584067
• ISBN 13: 9783631584064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Gebhardt Julian, Greif Hajo, Raycheva Lilia, Lobet-Maris Claire