Sociology In The Age of The Internet by Dr Allison Cavanagh

In recent years there has been a large and diverse body of writing from scholars in the social sciences who have been studying changes brought about by new communication technologies in general and the Internet in particular. The question of how people behave, interact and organize themselves in relation to this form of communication has been given added prominence by developments within new social theory, especially in relation to the novelty of contemporary social formations and the importance of mass communications to this changed order. 

Contents

• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• The rise of the network metaphor
• Approaches to networks
• Network methodologies
• The network society
• The internet as a network
• The internet as a media
• Elements of a public sphere
• Interactivity : It?s got to be jelly `cos jam don?t
• The global public sphere and forms of power
• The internet as a social space
• Community
• Online identity
• The internet as a technology
• Sociologies of technology
• The sociology of technology and the internet
•  Emergent perspectives Bibliography