How maturing digital media and network technologies are transforming place, culture, politics, and infrastructure in our everyday life.

Product Description: “There is little dispute that the Internet should continue as an open platform,” notes the U.S. Federal Communications Commission. Yet, in a curious twist of logic, the agency has moved to discontinue the legal regime successfully yielding that magnificent platform...read more

Product Description: This book presents current research in the study of computer networks, congressional policies and issues, as well as various applications and technologies powered by computers. Topics discussed include internet and computer-mediated technologies as new tools in the study of shyness; broadband internet access and the digital divide; bundling residential telephone, internet and video services; gender differences in high school internet coverage and ad hoc networks...read more

Provides information on the impact of information technology on society, including American business, crime, education, government services, health, and daily life.

Product Description: Defying the general belief that American citizenship is in decline, Sanford claims that Generation X is actually taking positions of civic leadership and authority as Baby Boomers retire. By exploring the traditional instrument of social capital, civic culture and political science, she attempts to make us understand more appropriately this maligned generation...read more

Product Description: "We the Media, has become something of a bible for those who believe the online medium will change journalism for the better." -Financial Times Big Media has lost its monopoly on the news, thanks to the Internet. Now that it's possible to publish in real time to a worldwide audience, a new breed of grassroots journalists are taking the news into their own hands...read more

Product Description: Who created the Web and why? How did its introduction change the Internet? How did the Web change the management and operation of businesses, government agencies, research and charitable organizations? How did it affect the way we locate information, buy products, and entertain ourselves? Why did it dramatically impact the use of computers and computer networking? This book answers these and many other questions about the World Wide Web, its history, and its use...read more

Product Description: "An indispensable primer for those who want to protect their digital rights from the dark forces of big media."-Kara Swisher, author of aol.comThe first general interest book by a blogger edited collaboratively by his readers, Darknet reveals how Hollywood's fear of digital piracy is leading to escalating clashes between copyright holders and their customers, who love their TiVo digital video recorders, iPod music players, digital televisions, computers, and other cutting-edge devices...read more

Product Description: Asian America.Net demonstrates how Asian Americans have both defined and been defined by electronic technology, illuminating the complex networks of identity, community, and history in the digital age.

Product Description: From one of today's most original, outspoken, and outrageous writers comes an extraordinary collection of essays, anecdotes, and observations on our life and times. Under his alter-egotistical nom de plume, RageBoy®, Chris Locke has entertained and enlightened thousands of readers from some of the world's largest companies, governments, and institutions-including those from which he's managed to escape...read more

Product Description: Drawing on nationally representative telephone surveys conducted from 1995 to 2000, James Katz and Ronald Rice offer a rich and nuanced picture of Internet use in America. Using quantitative data, as well as case studies of Web sites, they explore the impact of the Internet on society from three perspectives: access to Internet technology (the digital divide), involvement with groups and communities through the Internet (social capital), and use of the Internet for social interaction and expression (identity)...read more

Discusses the societal implications of the Internet, its affects on American institutions, government regulations, and the Internet's future.