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 happinessThe construction of identity on the web

The Internet and Enriching the Process of Self-formation

The use of internet technology to negotiate experienceThe use of internet technology to reappropriate knowledge and skillsThe use of internet technology to forge commitment and mutualityThe use of internet technology to track risk and uncertainty and transcend conflict

Publicness and the Internet

Visibility and the Internet

Non-localized spaceNon-dialogical spaceOpen-ended spaceA plurality of non-present producers and recipients

Towards a renewal of mediated publicness

A deliberative conception of mediated publicnessDeliberative processes, the internet and reflexive modernization

Globalization and the Internet

Cultural Globalization and Communication

The culture industry and the commodification of cultural formsCultural imperialism and the manipulation of human mindsPrioritizing 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 resourcesSeparation of media institutions and state power

Methods of Internet Regulation and Their Problems

CensorshipDifficulties of negative regulationLimitations of self-regulationTribulations of rating and filtering systems