Table of Contents

Dedication
Acknowledgements

Introduction

Section 1 The rise of the network metaphor
Approaches to networks
Network methodologies
The network society
The internet as a network

Section 2: The internet as a media
Elements of a public sphere
Interactivity : It’s got to be jelly ‘cos jam don’t
The global public sphere and forms of power

Section 3: The internet as a social space
Community
Online identity

Section 4: The internet as a technology
Sociologies of technology
The sociology of technology and the internet: Emergent perspectives

Bibliography

About the Author

Dr Allison Cavanagh is a lecturer in Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester on panic narratives in journalists representations of the internet. Her research concerns risk and social transformation in relation to new communications technologies and information circulation between media.