The wired homestead / edited by Joseph Turow and Andrea L. Kavanaugh.
Material type: TextSeries: An MIT Press sourcebook | An MIT Press sourcebookPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT, 2003.Description: 456 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780262700948 (pbk.) :
- 0262700948 (pbk) :
- 303.4834 TUR
- QA76.9.F35 W57 2003
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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: 1900-1060. Ellen Wartella and Byron Reeves -- 4.The impact of the Internet on children: lessons from television. Daniel R. Anderson and Marie K. Evans -- 5.Televsion 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 view 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,c oncerns, 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, home comuters. Catherine Burke -- 15.Nobody lives only in cyberspace: gendered subjectivities and domestic use of the Internet. Lisa-Jane McGerty -- 16.Internet paradox revised. Rboert Kraut ... [et al] -- 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 Ineternet in networked communities. Andrea L. Kavanaugh -- 20.Community building on the web. Lodis Rhodes -- 21.Examining community in the digtal neighbourhood: early results from Canada\'s wired suburb. Kieth Hampton and Barry Wellman.
Most researchers studying the impact of the Internet on families begin with the assumption that the family is the central influence in preparing a child to live in society. This volume offers findings on the effects of the internet on the lives of the family unit and its members.