THE INTERNET IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Edited by Barry Wellman and Caroline Haythornthwaite
Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, Fall 2002
The Internet
in Everyday Life brings together
many pioneering studies that systematically investigate how being online fits
into everyday lives. Until now, the Internet has been treated and discussed as
separate from daily life, occupying some separate sphere of social endeavor.
This collection of original articles from leading scholars in North America, Asia
and Europe moves discussion of the Internet closer to home, showing how the
Internet does not exist "out there" but is instead an integral part
of daily work and home life.
Contributors
show who is on the Internet and what they are doing there. They debate whether
the Internet adds to or detracts from the well-being of individuals,
communities, and societies. They demonstrate how the Internet affects
friendship, social capital, social support, civic involvement, school, work,
and shopping. They show the extent to which the Internet is supporting new
forms of human relationships, and describe what gets dropped and strained when
Internet hours are added to already full schedules.
The book
goes beyond speculation to provide solid findings. Articles are informed by
results from surveys, interviews, and ethnographic data about behavior on and
with the Internet. Taken as a whole, this considered body of evidence should
raise the level of debate about the impact of the Internet and raises serious
questions about the popular myth that Internet use increases social alienation.
THE INTERNET
IN EVERYDAY LIFE:
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Edited by Barry Wellman
& Caroline Haythornthwaite
MOVING THE INTERNET OUT OF CYBERSPACE
Howard Rheingold, Foreword: The Virtual Community
in the Real World
Manuel Castells, The Internet and the Network
Society
Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman, The
Internet in Everyday Life
THE PLACE OF THE INTERNET IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Philip Howard, Lee Rainie, & Steve Jones, Days
and Nights on the Internet
Wenhong Chen, Jeffrey Boase & Barry Wellman, The
Global Villagers: Comparing Internet Users and Uses Around the World
James Katz & Ronald Rice, Syntopia: Access, Civic
Involvement and Social Interaction on the Net
Ben Anderson & Karina Tracey, Digital Living: The
Impact (or Otherwise) of the Internet in Everyday British Life
Gert Wagner, Rainer Pischner & John Haisken-DeNew,
The Changing Digital Divide in Germany
Alan Neustadtl, John Robinson & Meyer
Kestnbaum, Doing Social Science Research Online
FINDING TIME FOR THE INTERNET
Norman Nie, D. Sunshine Hillygus & Lutz Erbring,
Internet Use, Interpersonal Relations and Sociability: A Time Diary Study.
John Robinson, Meyer Kestnbaum, Alan Neustadtl &
Anthony Alvarez, The Internet and Other Uses of Time
Janell Copher, Alaina Kanfer & Mary Bea Walker,
Everyday Communication Patterns of Heavy and Light Email Users
THE INTERNET IN THE COMMUNITY
Anabel Quan-Haase & Barry Wellman, Capitalizing on
the Net: Social Contact, Civic Engagement and Sense of Community
Andrea Kavanaugh & Scott Patterson, The Impact of
Computer Networks on Social Capital and Community Involvement in Blacksburg
Keith Hampton & Barry Wellman, The Not So Global
Village of Netville
Bonka Boneva & Robert Kraut, Email, Gender and
Personal Relationships
Sorin Matei & Sandra Ball-Rokeach, Belonging in
Geographic, Ethnic and Internet Spaces
THE INTERNET AT SCHOOL, WORK AND HOME
Caroline Haythornthwaite & Michelle Kazmer,
Bringing the Internet Home: Adult Distance Learners and Their Internet, Home
and Work Worlds
Janet Salaff, Where Home is the Office: The New Form of
Flexible Work
Teresa Davidson, R. Sooryamoorthy & Wesley Shrum,
Kerala Connections: Will the Internet Affect Science in Developing Areas?
Kakuko Miyata, Social Support for Japanese Mothers
Online and Offline
Robert Lunn & Michael Suman, Experience and Trust
in Everyday Shopping