Schroeder, R;
Social Theory after the Internet.
[Book].
UCL Press: London, UK.
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Abstract
The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.
| Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| Title: | Social Theory after the Internet |
| ISBN-13: | 9781787351226 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.9781787351226 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.9781787351226 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Text © Ralph Schroeder, 2018 Images © Ralph Schroeder, 2018 This book is published under a Creative Commons 4.0 International license (CC BY 4.0). This license allows you to share, copy, distribute and transmit the work; to adapt the work and to make commercial use of the work providing attribution is made to the authors (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work). Attribution should include the following information: Schroeder, R. 2018. Social Theory after the Internet. London, UCL Press. https:// doi.org/ 10.14324/ 111.9781787351226 Further details about Creative Commons licenses are available at http:// creativecommons.org/ licenses/ |
| Keywords: | Internet, Media, Technology, Globalization, Big data |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10040801 |
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