Current research on information technologies and society : papers from the 2013 meetings of the American Sociological Association

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Earl, Jennifer , 1974- (Author), Kimport, Katrina , 1978- (Author)
Corporate Author: American Sociological Association . Meeting
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge , c2015
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Hitting middle age never felt so good: introduction
  • 2. Testing the validity of social capital measures in the study of information and communication technologies
  • 3. Dimensions of Internet use: amount, variety, and types
  • 4. Twitter publics: how online political communities signaled electoral outcomes in the 2010 US house election
  • 5. No praise without effort: experimental evidence on how rewards affect Wikipedia's contributor community
  • 6. Need to know vs. need to share: information technology and the intersecting work of police, fire and paramedics
  • 7. Context collapse: theorizing context collusions and collisions
  • 8. Are we all equally at home socializing online? Cyberasociality and evidence for an unequal distribution of disdain for digitally-mediated sociality
  • 9. Revisiting the digital divide in Canada: the impact of demographic factors on access to the internet, level of online activity, and social networking site usage