Year: 2009
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: The growing importance of the Internet in today's lives raises many questions for social scientists, policy makers, and the public regarding the implications for work, education, community, politics, family life, and social relationships. Yet the research literature provides only moderate evidence that the Internet is bringing about any great changes; rather, the emerging picture stresses the (unequal) social conditions that influence how we fit the Internet into our lives. The contrast between the above quotations illustrates, the gap between the hopes held out for the Internet and the realities of people's experiences. As research, especially in industrialized countries, begins to shift its focus from questions of access and diffusion to questions about the nature and quality of Internet use, attention is being directed towards the skills and competence that ‘using’ the Internet implies.
Source: Oxford University Press eBooks
Author: Sonia Livingstone
Institution: London School of Economics and Political Science
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2266848752