The Internet in Everyday Life: Exploring the Tenets and Contributions of Diverse Approaches

The Handbook of Internet Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 59-82

  Bakardjieva, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ambitions of HomeNet team far beyond descriptive statistics of Internet uses; Authors, and co construction, users and technologies not remaining unchanged; Different types of approach to the Internet in everyday life; Giddens' "second order" concept, and social and cultural theorists concept of everyday life; Internet in everyday life tenets and contributions of diverse approaches; Internet's impact on daily life big picture of Internet use, and mundane activities; Newly emergent continent on a map of Internet research; Schutz's, and immediately experienced world "fundamental and paramount reality"; Ultimate hope of project practical strategies by and for users; Users, and how they understand the medium, why they adopt or reject it

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957124770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444314861.ch4     Document Type: Chapter

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