1st Edition

Information and Communications Technologies in Society E-Living in a Digital Europe

304 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

304 Pages 40 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

There is a growing body of work examining the ‘consequences’, or more accurately the inter-relationships between information and communications technologies (ICTs) and society at the microsocial (individual, household) level. The vast majority of this work has so far been focused on the US and the subsequent publications have consequently provided predominantly US-centred analyses. This... Read more

Introduction  Section 1: European and Global Trends in ICT Take-up and Usage  Section 2: Dematerialisation and ICTs  Section 3: Labour Market Issues  Section 4: Work, Home and Home-Work  Section 5: Age, Gender and ICTs  Section 6: Sociality and ICTs

Biography

Ben Anderson is Deputy Director of Chimera, a research institute of the University of Essex, UK.

Malcolm Brynin is Principal Research Officer for the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex, UK

Yoel Raban is Senior Research Fellow for the Interdisciplinary Center