Part I: Moving The Internet Out Of Cyberspace.

Part II: The Place Of The Internet In Everyday Life.

Part III: Finding Time For The Internet.

Part IV: The Internet In The Community.

Part V: The Internet At School, Work And Home.

"Wellman is to be congratulated for pulling together a collection
of excellent articles that will make a valuable contribution to
empirically grounding discussions about the effects of the Internet
on our everyday life experiences." Communication &
Society

"Its breadth, depth and empiricism make for an immensely
impressive collection which is likely to influence the field of
internet studies for years to come" New Media and
Society

"Work like that done in The Internet in Everyday Life is
invaluable in helping us see and understand the technological world
in which we are immersed. As such, it makes a major contribution to
our discipline and our society." Contemporary
Sociology

"A powerful collective statement both about the domestication of
the Internet in everyday life and about the need for new kinds of
questions and methodologies in the next generation of Internet
studies." Social Forces

Barry Wellman learned to keypunch in 1965 and started
chatting online in 1976. Now the head of the University of
Toronto's NetLab, he's a leading scholar of cybersociety,
community, and social network analysis. Prof. Wellman has pioneered
understanding of both communities and computer networks as social
networks. He founded the International Network for Social Network
Analysis, chaired the Community section of the American
Sociological Association, and serves on the Executive Committee of
the Association for Internet Research. He's written more than 200
articles and edited two other books. His website has received
20,000 hits in three years.

Caroline Haythornthwaite is a faculty member at the
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of
Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Coordinator of the
Undergraduate Minor in Information Technology Studies. Before
returning to full-time study, she spent over 10 years in software
development as a programmer, systems analyst, and software
development manager. Her research focuses on how people work and
learn together at a distance via computer technology and the
Internet, and examines what combinations of computer media, and
work and social communications build ties and social networks
online. Current projects include examination of learning networks
and community ties among distance learners, and processes of
knowledge co-construction among members of distributed research
teams.