Research Catalog

Title

Superconnected : the internet, digital media, and techno-social life / Mary Chayko, Rutgers University.

Author

Chayko, Mary, 1960-

Publication

Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE Publications, Inc., [2018]

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Details

Description

x, 270 pages; 24 cm

Summary

Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life, Second Edition brings together the latest research from many relevant fields to examine how contemporary social life is mediated by various digital technologies: the internet, social media, and mobile devices. The book explores such topics as how digital technology led to the modern information age, information sharing, and surveillance, how digital media shape socialization and development of the self, digital divides that separate groups in society, and the impact of digital media across social institutions. The author's clear, nontechnical discussions and interdisciplinary synthesis make Superconnected an essential text for any course that examines how social life is affected when information and communication technology enters the picture.

Subject

• Information technology > Social aspects
• Internet > Social aspects
• Digital media
• Information society
• 05.38 content aspects of electronic communication

Note

• Revised edition of the author's Superconnected, [2017]

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-254) and index.

Contents

About the author -- Superconnectedness -- Creating the internet age -- Inhabiting a digital environment -- Sharing and surveillance -- Global impacts and inequalities -- Techno-socialization and the self -- Friending, dating, and relating -- The techno-social institutions -- More benefits and hazards of 24/7 superconnectedness -- Our superconnected future -- References -- Further readings -- Index.

ISBN

• 9781506394855
• 150639485X

LCCN

2017033031

OCLC

• ocn993810239
• 993810239
• SCSB-14401948

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library