Interacting with Broadband Society

The Editors: Leopoldina Fortunati is Professor of Sociology of Communication at the Faculty of Education, University of Udine (Italy). Jane Vincent is Visiting Fellow at the University of Surrey's Digital World Research Centre (United Kingdom). Julian Gebhardt is Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Arts, Berlin (Germany). Andraz Petrovcic works as a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana (Slovenia). Olga Vershinskaya is Head of the Social Problems of ICT Dissemination at the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia).

Contents: Leopoldina Fortunati/Jane Vincent/Julian Gebhardt/Andraz Petrovcic/Olga Vershinskaya: Introduction: Approaching the notion of humans as e-actors interacting with Broadband Society - Leopoldina Fortunati: From ICT User to Broadband e-Actor - Gregor Petric/Andraz Petrovcic/Vasja Vehovar: Communication Technology Use as a Structuration Process: Exploring the Communicative Portraits of Active Users - Hajo Greif/Oana Mitrea/Matthias Werner: Usability vs. Functionality? Mobile Broadband Technologies and User Agency - Giuseppina Pellegrino: Mediated Bodies in saturated environments: Participation as co-construction - Amparo Lasen: Mobile Culture and Subjectivities: an Example of the Shared Agency between People and Technology - Julian Gebhardt: Alfred Schütz and the media: The intersubjective constitution of mediated interpersonal communication in everyday life - Jane Vincent: Me and My Mobile - Vsevolod M. Zherebin: Information Society as the Law-governed Result of the Evolution of Information - Olga Vershinskaya: Theoretical Approach to the Concept of Humans as e-Actors - Lilia Raycheva: Television: The Good, The Bad and the Unexpected Challenges of ICT - Panayiota Tsatsou: Digital Divides in Greece: The Role of Culture and Regulation in Internet Adoption. Implications for the European Information Society - Vesna Dolnicar: Regulating on an informed basis: Integrative methodological framework for monitoring the digital divide.