Society and the Internet: How Networks of Information and Communication are Changing Our Lives

by Mark Graham, William H. Dutton

Overview

The book describes how society is being shaped by the diffusion and increasing centrality of the Internet in everyday life and work. It introduces students and those interested in the factors shaping the Internet and its impact on society to a core set of readings that address this question in specific social and institutional contexts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199661992
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	07/29/2014
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Mark Graham, Professor of Internet Geography, Oxford Internet Institute, Unviersity of Oxford,William H. Dutton, Senior Fellow, Oxford Internet Institut, University of Oxford

Mark Graham is Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), University of Oxford. He is also a Faculty Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute, a Senior Research Fellow at Green Templeton College, a Research Affiliate in the University of Oxford's School of Geography and the Environment, and a Research Associate at the Centre for Information Technology and National Development at the University of Cape Town. His research spans topics between digital labour, the gig economy, internet geographies, and ICTs and development.

William H. Dutton is Emeritus Professor at the Annenberg School at the University of Southern California. He is also Senior Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), an Oxford Martin Fellow supporting the Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre at the University of Oxford, and Visiting Professor in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds. He was founding director of the OII, and a Fellow of Balliol College, until appointment as the Quello Professor of Media and Information Policy in the College of Communication Arts and Sciences at MSU, where he served as Director of the James H. Quello Center until 2018.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Manuel CastellsIntroduction, Mark Graham and William H. DuttonPart I. Internet Studies Of Everyday Life1. Inventing the Internet: Scapegoat, Sin Eater, and Trickster, Aleks Krotoski2. Next Generation Internet Users: A New Digital Divide, Grant Blank And William Dutton3. The Conceptual Foundations of Social Network Sites and the Emergence of the Relational Self-Portrait, Bernie Hogan And Barry Wellman4. The Politics of Children s Internet Use, Victoria Nash5. Gender and Race Online, Lisa NakamuraPart II. Information And Culture On The Line6. Internet Geographies: Data Shadows and Digital Divisions of Labour, Mark Graham7. China and the US in the New Internet World: A Comparative Perspective, Gillian Bolsover, William H. Dutton, Ginette Law, And Soumitra Dutta8. Social Media and the News: Implications for the Press and Society, Nic Newman, William H. Dutton, And Grant Blank9. The Impact of the Internet on Media Industries: An Economic Perspective, Sung Wook Ji And David Waterman10. Big Data: Towards a More Scientific Social Science and Humanities?, Ralph SchroederPart III. Networked Politics And Governments11. Transforming Government by Default?, Miriam Lips12. The Wisdom of Which Crowd? On the Pathology of a Digital Democracy Initiative for a Listening Government, Stephen Coleman And Jay Blumler13. Online Social Networks and Bottom-up Politics, Sandra Gonzalez-Bailon14. Big Data and Collective Action, Helen Margetts, Scott A. Hale, Taha Yasseri15. Empowering Citizens of the Internet Age: The Role of a Fifth Estate, Elizabeth Dubois And William H. DuttonPart IV: Networked Businesses, Industries AND Economies16. Scarcity of Attention for a Medium of Abundance: An Economic Perspective, Greg Taylor17. The Internet in the Law: Transforming Problem-Solving and Education, Richard Susskind18. The Digital Divide and Employment: The Case of the Sudanese Labour Market, Laura Mann19. A Critical Perspective on the Potential of the Internet at the Margins of the Global Economy, Mark GrahamPart V. Technological And Regulatory Histories And Futures20. Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks, Eli M. Noam21. Data Privacy in the Clouds, Christopher Millard22. The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance, Laura Denardis23. Beyond the Internet and Web, Yorick Wilks

Editorial Reviews

"I highly recommend this first edition to students who need a comprehensive overview of the field of Internet Studies, or those who seek new ideas and perspectives from other Internet scholars." — Alvin Y. Zhou, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Information, Communication & Society

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