Social consequences of Internet use : access, involvement, and interaction / James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice.

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245 1 0 |a Social consequences of Internet use :  |b access, involvement, and interaction /  |c James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c c2002. 
300 |a xxiv, 460 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [411]-438) and index. 
505 0 |a PREFACE. The first national random study of the internet's social consequences -- What hath the mouse wrought? -- The syntopia project - Acknowledgments. 1. AMERICA AND THE INTERNET : ACCESS, INVOLVEMENT, AND SOCIAL INTERACTION. Making sense of the internet -- Three central social issues of the internet : access, civic and community involvement, and social interaction and expression -- Major dystopian liabilities claimed -- Major utopian possibilities proclaimed -- Syntopian realities - I. ACCESS. Access : basic issues and prior evidence -- Conceptualization and consequences of access -- The dystopian perspective -- The utopian perspective -- Conclusion -- Access and digital divide : results -- Factors influencing awareness and usage -- Non users and users across the survey years -- A persistent but declining digital divide -- Differences in usage by cohort and survey year across -- Demographics -- Awareness -- Combined influences on usage and awareness -- Motivations for internet usage : non users and users, recent and long-term users, 1995 and 2000 -- Results from the Pew Internet and American Life Project Survey, March 2000 -- Conclusion -- Logging off : internet dropouts -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Access and digital divide examples -- Perspective on the digital divide -- Access : an important human right -- Access programs to overcome group or individual isolation -- Access for self-identity and advancing personal interests -- Reducing barriers to accessing culture -- Interest in access limited by a lack of perceived usefulness -- Recurring problems with attempts to overcome the digital divide -- Barriers are cultural and social, not technological - Conclusion. II. CIVIC AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT -- Civic and community involvement : basic issues and prior evidence -- Civic and political involvement -- Community involvement -- A broader question of impacts -- Conclusion -- Political involvement : survey results -- Offline and online political activity -- Related results from the Pew surveys -- Conclusion -- Community involvement : survey results -- Involvement in religious, leisure, and community -- Organizations -- Conclusion -- Involvement examples : evidence for an "invisible mouse"? -- Social-support networks -- Family -- Personal social networks : maintaining, restoring, and affirming -- Involvement with life and death : keeping memory alive -- Sex as a motive for involvement with the internet -- Community building : political involvement -- Community building : ethnic, cultural, and historical affiliation and enrichment -- Community building : social and recreational -- Altruistic endeavors encourage involvement feelings -- Negative consequences of certain forms of involvement - Conclusion. III. SOCIAL INTERACTION AND EXPRESSION. Social interaction and expression : basic issues and prior evidence -- The dystopian perspective -- The utopian perspective -- Potential transformations -- Conclusion -- Social interaction : survey results -- Offline interaction by users and non users -- Additional offline analyses for 1995 Additional offline analyses for 2000 -- Online interaction -- Additional online analyses for 1995 -- Additional online analyses for 2000 -- Results from the Pew March 2000 survey -- Conclusion -- Interaction and expression : self, identity, and homepages -- What self? -- Counter examples to the post modern argument -- The personal homepage as presentation of an integrated self -- Conclusion -- Interaction and expression examples -- Interaction to form social ties and relationships -- Self-expression : an underestimated aspect of the internet -- Self-expression leading to interaction with others -- Political expression -- Self-expression, self-identity, and human memory - Conclusion. IV. INTEGRATION AND CONCLUSION. Access, involvement, interaction, and social capital on the internet : digital divides and digital bridges -- Summary of basic issues and survey results -- The internet : access, involvement, interaction, and social capital - Conclusion. APPENDIXES. A. Methodology, national telephone surveys, statistical analyses, user interviews and site samples - B. Descriptive statistics from surveys. 
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