Internet Society: The Internet in Everyday LifeInternet Society investigates Internet use and its implications for society through insights into the daily experiences of ordinary users. Drawing on an original study of non-professional, 'ordinary' users at home, this book examines how people interpret, domesticate, and creatively appropriate the Internet by integrating it into the projects and activities of their everyday lives. |
Contents
One Conceptualizing User Agency | 9 |
Two Technology in Everyday Life | 37 |
Three Researching the Internet at Home | 76 |
Four Becoming a Domestic Internet User | 92 |
Little Behaviour | 117 |
Six Making Room for the Internet | 137 |
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