The Internet in Everyday Life
[PLACEHOLDER: Encyclopedia entry on how the internet integrates into everyday life practices.]
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Provides an early conceptual framework for understanding how the internet integrates into daily routines, arguing against the "cyberspace vs. real life" dichotomy that dominated early internet studies. This framing shift, from the internet as a separate domain to the internet as embedded infrastructure, has epistemological consequences for how we study and understand digital social life.
An early reference work entry that helped establish the "internet in everyday life" framing for a broad audience, moving beyond the techno-utopian/dystopian binary of early internet studies. Provides accessible conceptual tools for researchers and students encountering internet studies for the first time.