Interacting with Broadband Society (Participation in Broadband Society)

This book discusses the personal and social lives of e-actors interacting within the socio-technical structures of the evolving broadband society by exploring the different ways in which individuals social groups institutions operators manufactures policy makers designers and other parties contribute to human communication and social interaction in contemporary media societies. The volume covers four theoretical and empirical areas of research: the conceptual perspectives of e-actors the emergence of new forms of agency subjectivity and mediated interpersonal communication the everyd ay life experiences of e-actors and finally the shaping policies and regulations in the broadband society.