Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life
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Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life

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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

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Brief Contents
  7. Detailed Contents
  8. About the Author
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Chapter 1 Superconnectedness
  11. Chapter 2 Creating the Internet Age
  12. Chapter 3 Inhabiting a Digital Environment
  13. Chapter 4 Sharing and Surveillance
  14. Chapter 5 Global Impacts and Inequalities
  15. Chapter 6 Techno-Socialization and the Self
  16. Chapter 7 Friending, Dating, and Relating
  17. Chapter 8 The Techno-Social Institutions
  18. Chapter 9 More Benefits and Hazards of 24/7 Superconnectedness
  19. Chapter 10 Our Superconnected Future
  20. Acknowledgments
  21. References
  22. Index