Sociology 230: Internet and Society

For Thursday, January 26, you should read the following two articles, both available on Blackboard:

• Haythornthwaite & Wellman. "The Internet in Everyday Life: An Introduction"
  This article is the editors' introduction to their larger edited volume of the same title.
• Nie & Erbring. "Internet and Society: A Preliminary Report."
  These authors ask what effects Internet use has on society as a whole.

After you read the Nie & Erbring article, please take the short (3-question) survey that appears at the end of the article and bring your answers to class with you.

For fun, you might also want to take a look at the two chapters of Don Tapscott's Growing Up Digital that are on Blackboard - I think you'll find it a pretty good portrait of today's college students (keeping in mind that it was published in the mid-nineties).