TY - CHAP
T1 - Global Reach, Local Roots: Young Danes and the Internet
AU - Stald, Gitte Bang
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - een from a meta-perspective young people’s uses of the Internet do not differ essentially from those of the average population of Internet users. We all basically communicate, find information, are entertained or trade on the net. We meet other people, exchange experience and opinions and emotions. Experience and influence of the various forms and purposes of virtual life are intertwined with our experience and life in the physical world and we develop our identities in the dual realms of the virtual and the physical. The world opens up to us via the Internet when we transgress traditional borders in time, space and place and achieve direct and immediate access to people and places around the globe. At the same time we drag the world into our computer and comprise it into meaning and usefulness in our local context. But, with these general meanings in mind Internet uses - and attitudes towards these - are as much defined by social, cultural and educational background transversely to uses distinctive to age and gender and to individual interests, needs and competence.
AB - een from a meta-perspective young people’s uses of the Internet do not differ essentially from those of the average population of Internet users. We all basically communicate, find information, are entertained or trade on the net. We meet other people, exchange experience and opinions and emotions. Experience and influence of the various forms and purposes of virtual life are intertwined with our experience and life in the physical world and we develop our identities in the dual realms of the virtual and the physical. The world opens up to us via the Internet when we transgress traditional borders in time, space and place and achieve direct and immediate access to people and places around the globe. At the same time we drag the world into our computer and comprise it into meaning and usefulness in our local context. But, with these general meanings in mind Internet uses - and attitudes towards these - are as much defined by social, cultural and educational background transversely to uses distinctive to age and gender and to individual interests, needs and competence.
KW - Internet usage
KW - Youth online behavior
KW - Virtual and physical identity
KW - Transcultural Internet experience
KW - Socio-demographic influences on Internet use
KW - Internet usage
KW - Youth online behavior
KW - Virtual and physical identity
KW - Transcultural Internet experience
KW - Socio-demographic influences on Internet use
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780820468402
SP - 129
EP - 140
BT - Internet Research Annual Volume 1. Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conferences, 2000-2002
A2 - Consalvo, Mia
PB - Peter Lang
CY - New York
ER -