The cell phone is a social medium developing into a multimedia digital platform that provides, obtains, and shares personal and social information. Thus, digital divide, social support, and privacy issues familiar to students of the Internet are here applied to understanding why people may be...

A 1988 survey found that nearly three out of ten Americans thinks 'telephones' when they think about privacy invasion. By contrast, computers, databanks and workplace surveillance were almost never mentioned. People cited the spread of personal information as a concern, but they were generally...

Manuel Castells – one of the world's pre-eminent social scientists – has drawn together a stellar group of contributors to explore the patterns and dynamics of the network society in its cultural and institutional diversity. The book analyzes the technological, cultural and institutional...