ICTs and Social Change: Three Examples from Everyday Life

Abstract

of how our experience of information and communication technologies (ICTs) might be changing and might themselves be influenced by wider social developments. But the broader aim is go beyond considering these areas of life in their own right and ask about the types of contributions that researchers working in this field of ICTs might make. Hence, the three areas have not been chosen as the most important areas of change in our experience of ICTs nor is it claimed that they have the most significant social consequences. Instead they should be seen as case studies to achieve the wider goal of identifying the levels of analysis that social scientists might address The three examples and related questions are: 1. Time stress. Is our use of ICTs, perhaps especially the mobile phone and other portable technologies, contributing to greater time pressures or stresses in society? 2. People’s expanding communications repertoires. What issues and problems arise from the increasing range of communication channels open to us? 3. Parent-children relationships and ICTs. Is it becoming increasingly difficult for parents to monitor their children’s use of ICTs?

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