Internet society: The Internet in everyday life / Maria Bakardjieva.

Introduction
Among the Natives of the Internet Islands
Why the Home?
Why Qualitative Research?
Some Tools of the Trade
One Conceptualizing User Agency
Enter the User
The Social Construction of Technology:
Insights and Controversies
Critical Theory of Technology
Semiotic Approaches: Technology-as-Text
A Pragmatic Approach: Technology-as-Language
Summary
Two Technology in Everyday Life
Introduction: What is Everyday Life?
The Schutzian Everyday Lifeworld
From the 'Head World' to the Material World:
The Misery and Power of Everyday Life
Towards a Synthesis: Lifeworld and System
A Critical Phenomenology
The Home as a Site of Everyday Life
Summary
Three Researching the Internet at Home
The Blueprint in Hand
Respondent Recruitment
Net-Time Stories and the Art of Listening
The Respondents: Social-Biographical Situations
Data Analysis with a Little Help from Fairy Tales
Summary
Four Becoming a Domestic Internet User
Introduction
The Home Computer
Hooking up
Networking Knowledge and Skills: The Warm Expert
User-Technology Relations
The Embodiment Relation: (I-technology)-world
The Hermeneutic Relation: I-|technology-world)
The Alterity Relation: Technology as a Quasi-Other
Amplifications and Reductions
Summary
Five Situating the Virtual: Little Behaviour
Genres of the Internet
Introduction
Isolation
Relocation
Globally Spread Family and Social Networks
Uncertainty or Dissatisfaction with Current Job
Sense of Belonging to a Dispersed Community
of Interest
Summary: Little Behaviour Genres of the Internet
Six Making Room for the Internet
Introduction
The Micro-regulation of the Internet
The Wired Basement
The Family Computer Room
Spatial Improvisations: Work versus Pleasure
The Gate in the Living Room
Internet Parenting
Summary: Inscribing the Internet
Seven Virtual Togetherness
Introduction
Infosumption: The Rationalistic Ideal of Internet Use
Instrumental Interaction: Rational and yet Social
Exploring Ideas in Virtual Public Spheres
Chatting: Sociability Unbound
Community as in Commitment
Between the Public and the Intimate:
Gradients of Immediacy
Summary