The Internet and Kinship: Agency and Structure through th...
Kanaan, Hussam
The book applies the theories of Structuration and reflexivity to the Internet in Amman, Jordan, to argue how the Internet can challenge authority as embedded in kinship social formations. In the first place, the Internet can be an empowering agent by challenging authority, at the same time, kinship's social and moral codes can structure the reflexivity, Structuration, and agency that users derive from the Internet. This book argues that there...