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Consequences of the Internet for Self and Society: Is Social Life Being Transformed?

Katelyn Y. A. McKenna (Editor), John A. Bargh (Editor), Irene Hanson Frieze (Editor)
ISBN: 978-1-4051-0078-6
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216 pages
March 2002, Wiley-Blackwell
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  • Examines the implications of the internet as the primary means of personal communication.

  • Pulls together current research by well established researchers on the social consequences of the Internet, from a variety of levels of analysis, producing a holographic, 3-D look at the Internet's impact on psychological functioning of the individual as well as on the social fabric.

  • Perspectives of this examination include: psychological well-being, interpersonal relationships, social identity, group conflict, negotiation and bargaining,
    community involvement, and the development of democratic institutions.

  • Authors present quantitative as well as qualitative methodological
    approaches.

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