| Description |
ix, 502 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
The MIT Press sourcebooks |
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MIT Press sourcebooks.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Joseph Turow and Andrea L. Kavanaugh -- I. The New World in Context -- 1. Family Boundaries, Commercialism, and the Internet: A Framework for Research / Joseph Turow -- 2. Disintermediating the Parents: What Else Is New? / Elihu Katz -- 3. Historical Trends in Research on Children and the Media: 1900-1960 / Ellen Wartella and Byron Reeves -- 4. The Impact of the Internet on Children: Lessons from Television / Daniel R. Anderson and Marie K. Evans -- 5. Television and the Internet / Ellen Seiter -- II. On Parents and Kids -- 6. Data on Family and the Internet: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? / Maria Papadakis -- 7. A Family Systems Approach to Examining the Role of the Internet in the Home / Amy B. Jordan -- 8. The Internet and the Family: The Views of Parents and Youngsters / Joseph Turow and Lilach Nir -- 9. Mediated Childhoods: A Comparative Approach to Young People's Changing Media Environment in Europe / Sonia Livingstone -- 10. Outlook and Insight: Young Danes' Uses of the Internet - Navigating Global Seas and Local Waters / Gitte Stald -- 11. Sex on the Internet: Issues, Concerns and Implications / Mark Griffiths -- III. The Wired Homestead and Online Life -- 12. The Internet's Implications for Home Architecture / Steven Izenour -- 13. Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Family Perspectives on the Future of the Home PC / David Frohlich, Susan Dray and Amy Silverman -- 14. Women, Guilt, and Home Computers / Catherine Burke -- 15. "Nobody Lives Only in Cyberspace": Gendered Subjectivities and Domestic Use of the Internet / Lisa-Jane McGerty -- 16. Internet Paradox Revisited / Robert Kraut, Sara Kiesler, Bonka Boneva, Jonathan Cummings, Vicki Helgeson and Anne Crawford -- 17. Virtuality and Its Discontents / Sherry Turkle -- IV. The Wired Homestead and Civic Life -- 18. Three for Society: Households and Media in the Creation of Twenty-first Century Communities / Jorge Reina Schement -- 19. When Everyone's Wired: Use of the Internet in Networked Communities / Andrea L. Kavanaugh -- 20. Community Building on the Web / Lodis Rhodes -- 21. Examining Community in the Digital Neighborhood: Early Results from Canada's Wired Suburb / Keith Hampton and Barry Wellman |
| Summary |
In The Wired Homestead, communication theorists and social scientists offer recent findings on the effects of the internet on the lives of the family unit and its members. [from publisher's advertisement] |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Internet -- Social aspects.
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Internet and children.
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Computers and families.
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| Author |
Turow, Joseph.
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Kavanaugh, Andrea L.
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| LC no. |
2002040794 |
| ISBN |
0262700948 paperback alkaline paper |
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