TY - BOOK AU - Mary Chayko TI - Superconnected: the internet, digital media, and techno-social life SN - 9781506394855 U1 - REF.303.4833 C39 PY - 2018/// CY - Thousand Oaks, California PB - Sage KW - 05.38 content aspects of electronic communication KW - Information technology Social aspects KW - Digital media N2 - Superconnected: The Internet, Digital Media, and Techno-Social Life, Second Edition brings together the latest research from many relevant fields to examine how contemporary social life is mediated by various digital technologies: the internet, social media, and mobile devices. The book explores such topics as how digital technology led to the modern information age, information sharing, and surveillance, how digital media shape socialization and development of the self, digital divides that separate groups in society, and the impact of digital media across social institutions. The author's clear, nontechnical discussions and interdisciplinary synthesis make Superconnected an essential text for any course that examines how social life is affected when information and communication technology enters the picture ER -