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Btihaj Ajana Goldsmiths College, University of London [email protected] Abstract The aim of this paper is to examine the entangled relationship between the technology of cyberspace and the rhetoric of disembodiment by using Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological approach. I start with an overview…
Joseph D. Diaz Department of Sociology University of Nevada Las Vegas [email protected] Preface And Introduction When I began this project I had no idea where it would go or the form it would take. I write this note now having…
Richard Ling Telenor Research and Development [email protected] Abstract Many people are uneasy with the rapid spread of new forms of electronic communication and media such as the internet, video on demand, electronic agents, teletorg numbers (premium rate services), satellite TV,…
Bradley Nash, Jr. Department of Sociology Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University Introduction The Internet, the worldwide network of computer networks, is rapidly transforming the production, consumption, and distribution of knowledge and information. Not only is information made available in…
Mauri Collins The Pennsylvania State University Zane Berge Georgetown University [email protected] Abstract This paper reviews some of the literature on multiple job holders to set the stage for reporting the results of an exploratory study conducted on the Internet involving…
Geoffrey Moss [email protected] Abstract Bourdieu’s cultural capital thesis asserts that students from privileged socioeconomic backgrounds tend to acquire a background in high culture (i.e. cultural capital) that they invest in scholastic pursuits and thereby obtain returns in the form of…
Almudena Moreno Mnguez Jurídicas y de la Comunicación Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Valladolid Spain [email protected] Introduction As a result of the changes that Spanish families are undergoing within the context of Europe, several institutions undertook research in the…
René Levy Université de Lausanne Eric Widmer Universités de Genève et de Lausanne Jean Kellerhals Université de Genève Abstract Are present-day families still like those described by sociology in the middle of the 20th century or have they changed beyond…
Yuliang Liu School of Education Instructional Technology Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Edwardsville, Illinois [email protected] Abstract With computer-mediated communication (CMC) being widely employed in all fields, a growing body of CMC research has accumulated in recent decades. The research regarding the…
David R. Heise Indiana University Scientific assessment of subjective culture became a practical matter in the final quarter of the twentieth century. Psychologists Osgood, May, and Miron (1975) derived three dimensions of affective meaning from multivariate analyses of adjective rating…
