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Proces adaptacji użytkownika do środowiska online
The process of user's adaptation to online environment

Author(s): Anna Kubczak
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: Uniwersytet Łódzki - Wydział Ekonomiczno-Socjologiczny
Keywords: Computer user; Internet User; Identity; Adaptation; Online environment; Internet; Objective context of meaning; Fact-to-device interaction; Typification; Role-taking; Intersubjectivity; Reciprocity of perspectives; Identity; Phenomenology.

Summary/Abstract: This research paper presents initial findings from a long-term research project which aims to depict how people use Internet in their everyday life. One of the processes which eventually results in becoming an Internet user is adaptation to online communication environment. Research strategy used in this project combines elements of biographic approach with analytic procedures of Grounded Theory Methodology. Narrative interviews, semi-structured interviews and field notes from observations were the basic empirical material used for analysis.

  • Issue Year: VII/2011
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 57-84
  • Page Count: 27
  • Language: Polish
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