Networked
The New Social Operating System
- Paperback
376 pages
- Release Date
14 February 2014
Summary
How social networks, the personalized Internet, and always-on mobile connectivity are transforming-and expanding-social life.Daily life is connected life, its rhythms driven by endless email pings and responses, the chimes and beeps of continually arriving text messages, tweets and retweets, Facebook updates, pictures and videos to post and discuss. Our perpetual connectedness gives us endless opportunities to be part of the give-and-take of networking.Some worry that this new environment mak…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262526166 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262526166 |
| Author: | Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 14 February 2014 |
| Weight: | 508g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 19mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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It’s easy to find rigorous science, and it’s easy to find topical stuff, but it’s not easy to find both at the same time!
—Shankar Vedantam, NPR ScienceLee Rainie and Barry Wellman write a remarkably approachable, nuanced, and clear-written treatise on how social networks, the Internet, and mobile technology are changing the way we live our daily lives.
—Ate Poorthuis, Journal of Regional ScienceNetworked provides an engaging and accessible overview of the ways in which social networks, the Internet, and mobile technologies have converged to affect everyday lives.
—Vanessa P. Dennen, Educational TechnologyAbout The Author
Lee Rainie
Lee Rainie is Director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and former managing editor of U.S. News and World Report.Barry Wellman directs NetLab at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto. He is the founder of the International Network for Social Network Analysis and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
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