Embedding into Our Lives: New Opportunities and Challenges of the Internet - Hardcover

9789629963682: Embedding into Our Lives: New Opportunities and Challenges of the Internet

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 962996368X ISBN 13: 9789629963682

Publisher: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, 2009

No longer the exclusive domain of the wealthy, the specialist, or the enthusiast, today the internet is available to almost anyone who desires to use it and has become an integral part of our everday world. The essays in this volume examine the effect of the online environment on our social lives via three analytical frameworks: fit, link, and position. They address the way in which the internet has become an entrenched part of our personal and professional world and a vital tool on which we are incresingly dependent. The volume also explores the capacity of the Internet to embody our economic, cultural, and political "position" online.

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About the Author:

Louise Leung is associate professor, Anthony Y. H. Fung is associate professor, and Paul S. N. Lee is professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

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