Introduction: Life in the Web

Abstract

The article serves as an introduction to the current journal issue on Online Lives. It discusses and connects the research papers here under three different rubrics: the hopes and fears raised by a world where information is inescapable, the potential and risk of online identities and, finally, the forms of knowledge and participation that define the current architecture of a Web dominated by user-generated content.

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Oana Mateescu

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Oana Mateescu (2010). Introduction: Life in the Web. Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology, 1(2), 1-21. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-129583