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Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life
About this book
What does it mean to live in a superconnected society?
In this new revised, updated edition of Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life, Mary Chayko continues to explore how social life is impacted when communication and information technology enters the picture. She provides timely analysis of such critical issues as privacy and surveillance, online harassment and abuse, and dependency and addiction, while examining new trends in social media use, global inequalities and divides, online relating and dating, and the internet of things. The new edition highlights such issues as technology and mental health, digital public policy and law, and the author's own research on bias and stereotyping in digital environments. Throughout, she considers how individuals, families, communities, organizations, and whole societies are affected. The author's clear, nontechnical discussions and interdisciplinary synthesis make the third edition of Superconnected an essential text for any course that explores how contemporary life is impacted by the internet, social media, mobile devices, and smart technologies.
The text is accompanied by the author?s Superconnected Blog (superconnectedblog.com) which includes lecture slides, discussion questions and assignments, and short podcasts for each chapter that summarize key ideas.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Acknowledgements
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Brief Contents
- Detailed Contents
- About the Author
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Superconnectedness
- Chapter 2 Creating the Internet Age
- Chapter 3 Inhabiting a Digital Environment
- Chapter 4 Sharing and Surveillance
- Chapter 5 Global Impacts and Inequalities
- Chapter 6 Techno-Socialization and the Self
- Chapter 7 Friending, Dating, and Relating
- Chapter 8 The Techno-Social Institutions
- Chapter 9 More Benefits and Hazards of 24/7 Superconnectedness
- Chapter 10 Our Superconnected Future
- Acknowledgments
- References
- Index