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Internet Society investigates Internet use and its implications for society through insights into the daily experiences of ordinary users. Drawing on an original study of non-professional, 'ordinary' users at home, this book examines how people interpret, domesticate, and creatively appropriate the Internet by integrating it into the projects and activities of their everyday lives.
Chapter Four: Becoming a Domestic Internet User
Becoming a Domestic Internet User
the presence of a given kind of behaviour is the result of a sequence of social experiences during which the person acquires a conception of the meaning of the behaviour, and perceptions and judgments of objects and situations, all of which make the activity possible and desirable. Thus, the motivation or the disposition to engage in the activity is built up in the course of learning to engage in it and does not antedate this learning process. For such a view it is not necessary to identify those ‘traits’ which ‘cause’ the behaviour. Instead, the problem becomes one of describing the set of changes in the person's conception of the activity and the experience it provides ...
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