Experiencing Broadband Society

by Julian Gebhardt (Editor), Hajo Greif (Editor), Lilia Raycheva (Editor), Claire Lobet-Maris (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783631584064
Publisher:	Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Publication date:	04/22/2010
Series:	Participation in Broadband Society , #2
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

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).

Table of Contents

Contents: Julian Gebhardt/Hajo Greif/Lilia Raycheva/Claire Lobet-Maris/Amparo Lasen: Introduction: The Broadband Society and its Citizens – Tim Van Lier/Jo Pierson: Identification of community practices and co-creation by pre-adolescents: the case of Ketnet Kick – Beatriz Galán/Maidana Andrés Legal/D.I. Pedro Senar: Design and communication for local development: technological decisions in collaborative scenarios – Marina Borovik/Ludmilla Shemberko: Social Sciences Information User Behaviour and Searching Strategies in Multifarious Environment – Sarah Gallez/Anne-Claire Orban/Céline Schöller/Claire Lobet-Maris: Teenagers on the Net: Generational Divide, Autonomy, Liberty and Responsibility – Maria Sourbati: Non-Users in the Information Society Learning from the older generation – Inge Røpke/Kirsten Gram-Hanssen/Jesper Ole Jensen: Households’ ICT use in an energy perspective – Kerstin Wüstner: Attitudes towards mobile phone communication technology – Sharon Baurley/Erik Geelhoed/Philippa Brock/Andrew Moore: Communication wear: User feedback as part of a co-design process – Larissa Hjorth: Beyond the frame: The place of mobile and immobile media.

Editorial Reviews

«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)

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