The Internet: Benefits of the Next Communication Frontier

Introduces readers to the background and ways that the Internet is used and is developing with wider applications. Access issues are also discussed as well as legal implications.

Introduces social science theory and applications.

That no definitive approach is clear about the future applications for the Internet and that it is still a maturing technology.

More research is required in all areas to see what the next decade of development will suggest.

Tests the ubiquity of the Internet and suggests that many new applications are still to be pioneered.

Forces reader to consider what has contributed to the success of the Internet, and now that it is in its adolescence, what the future may be.