In recent years there has been a large and diverse body of writing
from scholars in the social sciences who have been studying changes
brought about by new communication technologies in general and the
Internet in particular. The question of how people behave, interact
and organize themselves in relation to this form of communication
has been given added prominence by developments within new social
theory, especially in relation to the novelty of contemporary
social formations and the importance of mass communications to this
changed order.
For the student new to the study of technology and society,
there are a bewildering array of claims and counter claims,
representing a spectrum of theoretical, methodological and critical
sensibilities in relation to the Internet. In this new book Allison
Cavanagh evaluates the work in this area by: Investigating the
novelty of the Internet and setting the Internet in the context of
communication histories Evaluating the extent and rate of change
through a synthesis of the available empirical literature Providing
a key to understanding the changes identified through an evaluation
of the utility of new social theory "Sociology in the Age of the
Internet" is essential reading for academics and students with an
interest in the relationship between the internet and society.
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