The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book tosystematically investigate how being online fits into people'severyday lives.
* * Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of theInternet.
* * Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, ratherthan considering it as an alternate world.
* * Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in thearea.
* * Studies are based on empirical data.
* * Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or fearsabout the future effects of the Internet.