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Placing cyberspace: processes of Americanization in British children’s use of the Internet
Author(s) -
Holloway Sarah L.,
Valentine Gill
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
area
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.958
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1475-4762
pISSN - 0004-0894
DOI - 10.1111/1475-4762.00018
Subject(s) - cyberspace , americanization , the internet , sociology , media studies , political science , computer science , world wide web , anthropology
This paper counters the notion that cyberspace is a placeless electronic sphere through an analysis of British children's use of the Internet. It demonstrates that rather than being accessible from everywhere but existing nowhere, cyberspace is shaped through place‐routed cultures, and in particular through processes of Americanization.