Internet and Society

Internet, the Self and Experience in Everyday Life Dilemmas of the self as a symbolic project Unification versus fragmentation Powerlessness versus appropriation Authority versus uncertainty Personalized versus commodified experience

Life Strategies and the Internet Internet personalities (Bauman) Stroller Vagabond Tourist Player

Transforming the Process of Self-formation The internet paradox: loneliness and depression versus friendship and happiness The construction of identity on the web

The Internet and Enriching the Process of Self-formation The use of internet technology to negotiate experience The use of internet technology to reappropriate knowledge and skills The use of internet technology to forge commitment and mutuality The use of internet technology to track risk and uncertainty and transcend conflict

Publicness and the Internet

Visibility and the Internet Non-localized space Non-dialogical space Open-ended space A plurality of non-present producers and recipients

Towards a renewal of mediated publicness A deliberative conception of mediated publicness Deliberative processes, the internet and reflexive modernization

Globalization and the Internet

Cultural Globalization and Communication The culture industry and the commodification of cultural forms Cultural imperialism and the manipulation of human minds Prioritizing the power of commercial and political elites and the fate of individuals in the modern era

The Internet: Globalized Diffusion and Localized Appropriation

Regulation and the Internet

Regulated Pluralism Deconcentration of resources Separation of media institutions and state power

Methods of Internet Regulation and Their Problems Censorship Difficulties of negative regulation Limitations of self-regulation Tribulations of rating and filtering systems