The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives.

• Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.


• Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.


• Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.


• Studies are based on empirical data.


• Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or...

The Internet in Everyday Life is the first book to systematically investigate how being online fits into people's everyday lives.

• Opens up a new line of inquiry into the social effects of the Internet.


• Focuses on how the Internet fits into everyday lives, rather than considering it as an alternate world.


• Chapters are contributed by leading researchers in the area.


• Studies are based on empirical data.


• Talks about the reality of being online now, not hopes or...

In 1996 the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign began an Internet-based teaching program, allowing students across the United States and the world to earn a Master s degree from a distance. The program, known as LEEP (Library Education Experimental Project), has been an outstanding success, and as an early innovation in Internet use, provides important lessons on how to flourish in an online environment.
Learning, Culture and Community in Online Education brings together significant new research on online education,...