The construction of the World Wide Web audience

Article Abstract:

This article discusses the continued progression of the Internet from communication technology to mass medium. The social and industrial influences which shape the Internet as a technology and as a market, and the results of such influences on the consumer, are also explored.

Social aspects, Consumer behavior, World Wide Web

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Japan's mobile technoculture: the production of a cellular playscape and its cultural implications

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The article explores the keitai, or cellular phone, playscape that developed in Japan when mobile phones became a mass consumer product there. It traces the developmental history of keitai from a technological device to a means of sociocultural change.

Japan, History

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Changes in the self-resulting from the use of mobile phones

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The potential consequences of the use of mobile telephones in people's behavior and identity is presented. It is considered that the mobile phone not only emerges within a postmodern society but also along with other technological developments.

United States, Psychological aspects, Usage, Interpersonal relations, Self identity

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