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Internet u funkciji personalnog umrežavanja
Personal Networking Function of the Internet

Author(s): Dalibor Petrović
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Sociološko naučno društvo Srbije
Keywords: internet; networked; individualization; transmissional and procreative function;

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the paper is to understand the role of Internet in creating new forms of sociability in the modern society. In the first part the history of social studies of Internet is reviewed, and the conclusion put forward that the anti-social role of the Internet cannot be proved. In the theoretical part of the paper the author presents his idea of two basic roles of Internet as interpersonal interaction tool: transmissional and procreative. These two Internet functions are very important means for reproducing a new form of sociability known as networked individualism.

  • Issue Year: 51/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 23-44
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Serbian