This volume represents a collection of recent thinking and research on the social and cultural aspects of contemporary broadband societies by exploring the social experiences and practices of using new information and communication technologies ICT within different contexts and domains of the emerging broadband society. It offers a compendium of the latest thoughts and questions on digitally mediated citizenship networked identity and sociality in the 21st Century and covers four main themes and empirical areas of research uses and practices of new media with particular focus on underprivileged groups new media and the social differentiation of their use ICT use and sustainable development and finally new technologies new challenges.