The Social Dynamics Of Information And Communication Technology

Author : Leslie Haddon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317015765

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The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology by Leslie Haddon Pdf

What shapes the role of Information and Communication Technologies in our everyday life? Despite the speed with which information and communication technologies such as the PC, mobile telephone and internet have found their way into society, there remains a good deal of debate surrounding their adoption and use. Through empirical studies covering a broad range of everyday life and work settings, this volume provides grounded insights into the social dynamics influencing how ICTs are both shaped and experienced. Specifically, the book examines the contributions of diverse disciplines to our understanding of these processes, the symbolic nature of technologies, the influence of design on the experience of ICTs, the role of users in influencing that design, the social constraints affecting the use of those technologies, and strategies for evaluating the social consequences of ICT innovations.

Author : Eugene Loos,Leslie Haddon,E. A. Mante-Meijer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Communication
ISBN : 1315552817

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The Social Dynamics of Information and Communication Technology by Eugene Loos,Leslie Haddon,E. A. Mante-Meijer Pdf

Author : Jonathan Paul Marshall,James Goodman,Didar Zowghi,Francesca da Rimini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317436393

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Disorder and the Disinformation Society by Jonathan Paul Marshall,James Goodman,Didar Zowghi,Francesca da Rimini Pdf

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on "disinformation." Disorder and the Disinformation Society offers a practical agenda, arguing that difficulties in producing software are both inherent to the process of developing software and in the social dynamics of informationalism. It outlines the dynamics of software failure as they impinge on of information workers and on daily life, explores why computerized finance has become inherently self-disruptive, asks how digital enclosure and intellectual property create conflicts over cultural creativity and disrupt informational accuracy and scholarship, and reveals how social media can extend, but also distort, the development of social movements.

Author : Charalambos Tsekeris,Ioannis Katerelos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317412182

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The Social Dynamics of Web 2.0 by Charalambos Tsekeris,Ioannis Katerelos Pdf

Within only a few years, Facebook, Wikipedia, Twitter, You Tube and other social media have become an intimate part of everyday life. Web 2.0, the collective term for all forms of interactive online communication, is characterized by the overwhelming ability of users to collaboratively create content. The implications of Web 2.0 have become a central focus for interdisciplinary social science research. This book comprehensively addresses the profound impact of Web 2.0 on contemporary society and its dynamics in a multiplicity of fields. The chapters, authored by world-leading experts, vividly demonstrate that Web 2.0 is a dynamic basis for collective action and an unlimited source of societal destabilisation and revolutionary change, for better or for worse. Various aspects of the radical transformative potential of Web 2.0 are imaginatively and critically discussed in the analytical context of quantitative approaches, qualitative works and case studies. This book provides key insights into the wide-reaching implications of recent technological developments, casting new light into an area which may potentially contribute to a more peaceful and sustainable future. This book was originally published as a special issue of Contemporary Social Science: Journal of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Author : Lelia Green
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002-05-24
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015054417335

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Communication, Technology and Society by Lelia Green Pdf

Lelia Green looks at what drives technological change, showing that the adoption of new technologies is not inevitable. She also explores how a variety of technology cultures coexist and interact.

Author : Robin Mansell
Publisher : Oxford Handbooks Online
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199266234

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The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies by Robin Mansell Pdf

The production and consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (or ICTs) have become embedded within our societies. The influence and implications of this have an impact at a macro level, in the way our governments, economies, and businesses operate, and in our everyday lives. This handbook is about the many challenges presented by ICTs. It sets out an intellectual agenda that examines the implications of ICTs for individuals, organizations, democracy, and the economy. Explicity interdisciplinary, and combining empirical research with theoretical work, it is organised around four themes covering the knowledge economy; organizational dynamics, strategy, and design; governance and democracy; and culture, community and new media literacies. It provides a comprehensive resource for those working in the social sciences, and in the physical sciences and engineering fields, with leading contemporary research informed principally by the disciplines of anthropology, economics, philosophy, politics, and sociology.

Author : Hugh F. Cline
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317703211

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Information Communication Technology and Social Transformation by Hugh F. Cline Pdf

This book argues that information communication technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social change that have their origins in ancient times. Using a comparative historical perspective, it analyzes the applications of information communication technologies in relation to changes in norms and values, education institutions, the socialization of children, new forms of deviant and criminal behaviors, enhanced participation in religious activities, patterns of knowledge creation and use, the expansion of consumerism, and changing experiences of distance and time.

Author : Jonathan Paul Marshall,James Goodman,Didar Zowghi,Francesca da Rimini
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317436386

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Disorder and the Disinformation Society by Jonathan Paul Marshall,James Goodman,Didar Zowghi,Francesca da Rimini Pdf

This book is the first general social analysis that seriously considers the daily experience of information disruption and software failure within contemporary Western society. Through an investigation of informationalism, defined as a contemporary form of capitalism, it describes the social processes producing informational disorder. While most social theory sees disorder as secondary, pathological or uninteresting, this book takes disordering processes as central to social life. The book engages with theories of information society which privilege information order, offering a strong counterpoint centred on "disinformation." Disorder and the Disinformation Society offers a practical agenda, arguing that difficulties in producing software are both inherent to the process of developing software and in the social dynamics of informationalism. It outlines the dynamics of software failure as they impinge on of information workers and on daily life, explores why computerized finance has become inherently self-disruptive, asks how digital enclosure and intellectual property create conflicts over cultural creativity and disrupt informational accuracy and scholarship, and reveals how social media can extend, but also distort, the development of social movements.

Author : Ewa Lechman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781315474649

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The Diffusion of Information and Communication Technologies by Ewa Lechman Pdf

In recent decades, the world has witnessed, unprecedented in terms of speed and geographic coverage, diffusion of new information and communication technologies (ICT). The on-going digital revolution pervasively impacts and reshapes societies and economies and therefore deserves special attention and interest. This book provides extensive evidence on information and communication technologies development patterns and dynamics of this process across developed economies over the period 1980 to the present day. It adopts newly developed methodology to identification of the ‘critical mass’ and isolation of technological takeoff intervals, which are intimately related to the process of technology diffusion. The statistically robust analysis of country-specific data demonstrates the key economic, social and institutional prerequisites of ICT diffusion across examined countries, indicating what factors significantly foster or – reversely – hinder the process.

Author : Paschal Preston
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001-03-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0803985630

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Reshaping Communications by Paschal Preston Pdf

Thirty years ago, one writer complained that 'to admire technology is all out of fashion'. Today excited claims are made for the impact that these technologies are having on social, political and economic life. But how are we to assess these claims? This book critically interrogates many of the prevailing ideas offers a fresh perspective on this new`digital age'. Reshaping Communications: · Provides an alternative and more grounded account of the complex interplay between new technology and information structures and changes in society · Illuminates the fundamental continuities as well as changes in socioeconomic and political processes · Draws on an interdisciplinary perspective and

Author : Leslie Haddon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119474836

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Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life by Leslie Haddon Pdf

How do cell phones change society? How do children use computers? How can we manage relationships via text messages? The internet, television, email and other new forms of information technology are changing at a rapid pace with potentially profound but also subtle influences on social life. This book offers a succinct introduction to both the experience and implications of these information and communication technologies (ICTs) in everyday life. Drawing on a wide variety of studies from different countries, the author considers the potential, or feared, social consequences of ICTs. Throughout, he analyzes what factors are shaping the debates surrounding information and communication technologies. The outcome is a cutting-edge book that offers a fresh approach to understanding ICTs and everyday life.

Author : Rob Kling,Howard Rosenbaum,Steve Sawyer
Publisher : Information Today, Inc.
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 1573872288

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Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics by Rob Kling,Howard Rosenbaum,Steve Sawyer Pdf

Here is a sustained investigation into the human contexts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), covering both research and theory in this emerging field. Authors Kling, Rosenbaum, and Sawyer demonstrate that the design, adoption, and use of ICTs are deeply connected to people's actions as well as to the environments in which they are used. In Chapters One and Two, they define Social Informatics and offer a pragmatic overview of the discipline. In Chapters Three and Four, they articulate its fundamental ideas for specific audiences and present important research findings about the personal, social, and organizational consequences of ICT design and use. Chapter Five covers Social Informatics education; Chapter Six discusses ways to communicate Social Informatics to professional and research communities; and Chapter Seven provides a summary and look to the future.

Author : Frank Land
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780191554919

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The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology by Frank Land Pdf

This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICTs permeate every sphere of society - business, education, leisure, government, etc. - it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computers, between society and technology. For example, the user may represent a much broader set of actors than 'the user' conventionally found in many texts: the operator, the customer, the citizen, the gendered individual, the entrepreneur, the 'poor', the student. Each actor uses ICT in different ways. This book examines these issues, deploying a number of methods such as Actor Network Theory, Socio-Technical Systems, and phenomenological approaches. Management concerns about strategy and productivity are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization. Topics range from long-standing themes in the study of IT in organizations such as implementation, strategy, and evaluation, to general analysis of IT as socio-economic change A distinguished group of contributors, including Bruno Latour, Saskia Sassen, Robert Galliers, Frank Land, Ian Angel, and Richard Boland, offer the reader a rich set of perspectives and ideas on the relationship between ICT and society, organizational knowledge and innovation.

Author : Patrice Flichy
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0803978510

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Dynamics of Modern Communication by Patrice Flichy Pdf

Patrice Flichy offers a profound analysis of the social shaping and impact of the major communication technologies of the last 200 years. From the semaphore and telegraph to contemporary information technologies, Dynamics of Modern Communication focuses on the relationship between technological and social change. Particular emphasis is put on four processes: the birth of the modern state at the end of the eighteenth century; the development of stock markets; the transformation of private life in the modern nuclear family; and the individualism of the late twentieth century. Exploring the interaction of technology and social context - for example, in the move from public methods of communication to m

Author : Gunilla Bradley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351865760

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The Good ICT Society by Gunilla Bradley Pdf

What is Quality of Life in a society that has embraced information and communication technology (ICT)? What is Wisdom in this kind of society? And what things are helping or hindering us from having both wisdom and a good quality of life in ICT societies? Taking the reader through a quick analysis of the current social and psychological changes in the Information and Communication Society, Bradley challenges us to avoid becoming victims of technology - whether we are professionals, policymakers, parents or citizens. Indeed, she introduces a theoretical model based on four decades’ worth of research to help the reader to understand this complex, technological world. In addition to focusing the reader’s attention on convergence and acceleration, this model describes the interplay between technology, societal structure, organizational design and human roles, thus leading to what Bradley describes as a "good ICT society". Emphasising the necessity of a co-operative parallel between the automation and humanization of society, this innovative volume will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students and postdoctoral researchers interested in the subjects such as Information and Communication Technology and Social Change, Psychology and Sociology, Computer Technology and Media Technology.