Description: 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 makes us isolated and lonely. But in Networked, Lee Rainie and Barry Wellman show how the large, loosely knit social circles of networked individuals expand opportunities for learning, problem solving, decision making, and personal interaction. The new social operating system of “networked individualism” liberates us from the restrictions of tightly knit groups; it also requires us to develop networking skills and strategies, work on maintaining ties, and balance multiple overlapping networks.
Rainie and Wellman outline the “triple revolution” that has brought on this transformation: the rise of social networking, the capacity of the Internet to empower individuals, and the always-on connectivity of mobile devices. Drawing on extensive evidence, they examine how the move to networked individualism has expanded personal relationships beyond households and neighborhoods; transformed work into less hierarchical, more team-driven enterprises; encouraged individuals to create and share content; and changed the way people obtain information. Rainie and Wellman guide us through the challenges and opportunities of living in the evolving world of networked individuals.
Price: 16.92 USD
Location: Avenel, New Jersey
End Time: 2024-09-18T16:11:28.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Networked Format: Paperback
Genre: General/trade
Narrative Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Number of Pages: 372 Pages
Publication Name: Networked : the New Social Operating System
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Subject: Web / Social Media, Media Studies, Social Aspects, Internet / General, Social Aspects / General, General, Interpersonal Relations
Publication Year: 2014
Item Weight: 18.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Lee Rainie, Barry Wellman
Subject Area: Computers, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Psychology
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
