This book discusses the personal and social lives of e-actors interacting within the
socio-technical structures of the evolving broadband society by exploring the different ways in
which individuals social groups institutions operators manufactures policy makers
designers and other parties contribute to human communication and social interaction in
contemporary media societies. The volume covers four theoretical and empirical areas of
research: the conceptual perspectives of e-actors the emergence of new forms of agency
subjectivity and mediated interpersonal communication the everyday life experiences of
e-actors and finally the shaping policies and regulations in the broadband society.
