unashamed self-publicity... I hope to persuade the publisher to send samples etc to aoir8. "Information and Communications Technologies in Society: E-living in a Digital Europe" by Ben Anderson (Editor), Malcolm Brynin (Editor), Yoel Raban (Editor), Jonathan Gershuny (Editor) Routledge ISBN-10: 0415383846 ISBN-13: 978-0415383844 Content/author list: Introduction Brynin, Anderson & Raban Trends in ICTs and future forecasts Yoel Raban Digital Divides and Choices Reconfiguring Access: National and Cross- National Patterns of Internet Diffusion and Use Bill Dutton and Adrian Shepherd The social impact of broadband internet in the home Yoel Raban and Ben Anderson The Mysterious East: Pluses and Minuses in the E-Europe Equation Maria Bakardjieva Gender and ICTs: implications for policy and strategy Tal Sofer and Yoel Raban ICT use and the elderly - cohort, lifestage or just irrelevant? Deborah Diduca, Caroline Partridge, Jeroen Heres UK Children Go Online: A child-centred approach to the experience of using the internet Sonia Livingstone Web use & Net nerds J Gershuny Telework Transitions and the Quality of Life Ben Anderson and Birgitte Yttri Informal Social Capital and ICTs Rich Ling Social Capital, Quality of Life and Information and Communication Technologies Ben Anderson Civic participation and ICTs Jeroen Heres and Frank Thomas ICTs and growth potential Jochen Dehio The Relative Gains From Computer Usage And Skills: A Gender Perspective Malcolm Brynin The use of ICT in the workplace: opening the black box Bram Steijn & Kea Tijdens What does telework tell us about teleworkers? Leslie Haddon and Malcolm Brynin Have Information and Communication Technologies Changed the Patterns of High-Skilled Migration? Michael Rothgang and Christoph M. Schmidt Electronic waste and dematerialisation Alberto Pasquini and Lorenzo Vicario Sustainable business in the digital society Vidhya Alakeson and James Goodman Conclusion: A slow start? J Gershuny ---- Dr Ben Anderson Deputy Director, Chimera, the Institute for Social and Technical Research University of Essex +44 (0) 7710 187 806 blog: http://istr.wordpress.com/ web: http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/