1. Uses of the Internet
... non-professional users interpret, domesticate, and creatively appropriate the Internet in order to integrate it into the relevance structures and activities of their everyday lives (67). They have identified "use genres- that were invented by users of the Internet. Their list includes participation in online support groups, holding together a fragmented national and cultural identity, sustaining globally spread ... social and family networks, political organizing, talking back to institutions of power, rationalizing everyday activities, and connecting local and global interest groups (8...
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- Grade Level: High School