TAILIEUCHUNG - THE INTERNET IN EVERYDAY LIFE: AN INTRODUCTION

The changing presence of the Internet from a medium for elites to one in common use in our everyday lives raises important questions about its impact on access to resources, social interaction, and commitment to local community. This book brings together studies that cover the impact of “the Internet” in everyday life in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, India, Japan and globally. These studies show the Internet as a complex landscape of applications, purposes and users. This introduction begins by summarizing results from studies in this book and other recent research to provide an overview of the Internet population and its activities – statistics that help. | THE INTERNET IN EVERYDAY LIFE AN INTRODUCTION Caroline Haythornthwaite and Barry Wellman Draft of chapter to appear in The Internet in Everyday Life edited by Barry Wellman Caroline Haythornthwaite Oxford Blackwell Publishers Fall 2002 Abstract The changing presence of the Internet from a medium for elites to one in common use in our everyday lives raises important questions about its impact on access to resources social interaction and commitment to local community. This book brings together studies that cover the impact of the Internet in everyday life in the United States Canada Britain Germany India Japan and globally. These studies show the Internet as a complex landscape of applications purposes and users. This introduction begins by summarizing results from studies in this book and other recent research to provide an overview of the Internet population and its activities - statistics that help define and articulate the nature of the digital divide. We move from there to consideration of the social consequences of adding Internet activity to our daily lives exploring how use of the Internet affects traditional social and communal behaviors such as communication with local family and commitment to geographical communities. We conclude with a look at how these studies also reveal the integration of the Internet in our everyday lives. Author s Note We appreciate the help in compiling Internet data provided by Wenhong Chen Uzma Jalaluddin Monica Prijatelj and Uyen Quach. Our research has been supported by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Communications and Information Technology Ontario IBM s Institute for Knowledge Management the Oilice of Learning Technology Human 1 Resources Development Canada Mitel Networks and the University of Illinois Research Board. We thank with all our hearts the patience and support provided while we were preparing this book by Alvan and Gillian Bregman to Caroline Haythornthwaite and Beverly Wellman to .

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