This volume represents a collection of recent thinking and research on the social and cultural
aspects of contemporary broadband societies by exploring the social experiences and practices
of using new information and communication technologies (ICT) within different contexts and
domains of the emerging broadband society. It offers a compendium of the latest thoughts and
questions on digitally mediated citizenship networked identity and sociality in the 21st
Century and covers four main themes and empirical areas of research: uses and practices of new
media with particular focus on underprivileged groups new media and the social
differentiation of their use ICT use and sustainable development and finally new technologies
new challenges.
