Agreed - the formulation surely needs to avoid making technology itself the agent of change... Also, there's the question of how internet tech/use might be the outcome of other social changes This kind of reasoning led me and Leah Lievrouw to talk of "the social shaping and social consequences" of new media (or the internet) Sonia -----Original Message----- From: Air-L [mailto:air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Barry Wellman Sent: 27 July 2014 14:19 To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] change/associated with Agree with previoius comment ""Internet studies is the interdisciplinary consideration of how Internet technologies are changing individuals, societies and cultures." But I'd soften even further, and go with "Associated with changes in..." Correlation NE Causation etc Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ Faculty of Information (iSchool) University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $15 Kindle $9 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/ Please access the attached hyperlink for an important electronic communications disclaimer: http://lse.ac.uk/emailDisclaimer