The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism

Introduction The Internet Becomes Embedded in Community Life The Turn Towards Networked Individualism and E-Citizenship Rethinking Sociability, Neighborhood, and Community Technological Changes Create Social Affordances Broader Bandwidth Always Connected Personalization Wireless Portability Globalized Connectivity Documenting the Current Situation of the Internet What Are the Internet?s Effects on Community? The Internet Decreases Community The Internet Transforms Community The Internet Supplements Community Netville: Neighboring and Long-Distance Community in a Highly Wired Suburb Community Networks in North America Experience Counts The More the More Distance Still Matters Organizational Involvement International Users and Uses of the Internet Survey 2000 Catalans and the Internet The Mobile-ized E-Communication of the Japanese The Rise of Networked Individualism (E-) Citizenship in a Networked Society Acknowledgments Footnotes References About the Authors