Understanding the Internet

BRIDGETTE WESSELS is Lecturer of Sociology at the University of Sheffield, UK. Her writing and research focuses on social and cultural change, particularly in relation to ICT and the Internet. She teaches courses on the ICT, Internet and Society at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

• Assessing the Internet as Socio-Cultural FormsThe Cultural History of the InternetCultural Forms and Socio-Technical ChangeThe Socio-Cultural Environment of the InternetWork and the InternetPublic Policy and the InternetExclusions, Inclusion and the InternetCulture, Everyday Life and the InternetCyber-Cultures and the InternetThe Communications Environment and the InternetConclusionNotesGlossar.