"These editors have the respect, visibility, and track-record to make this volume a contribution to the field of Internet studies. It will be adopted as an upper-division text and can also serve as a valuable reference work for doctoral students. Given its broad mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this work should have wide appeal ......
"These editors have the respect, visibility, and track-record to make this volume a contribution to the field of Internet studies. It will be adopted as an upper-division text and can also serve as a valuable reference work for doctoral students. Given its broad mix of qualitative and quantitative approaches, this work should have wide appeal ......
This text provides an analysis of the way in which under-represented groups - gay men, women and special-interest groups - are exploiting the opportunities that the Internet provides for social and political change. It presents contributions from a range of subject disciplines in order to reflect the diverse paradigms engaged in the study of ......
The aesthetic nature and purposes of computer culture in the contemporary world are investigated in this book. Sean Cubitt casts a cool eye on the claims of cybertopians, tracing the globalization of the new medium and enquiring into its effects on subjectivity and sociality. Drawing on historical scholarship, philosophical aesthetics and the ......
Turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. The author charts the struggles to define the meanings of these machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's difference engine in the 19th century to struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism.
Turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. The author charts the struggles to define the meanings of these machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's difference engine in the 19th century to struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism.
Internet Society investigates Internet use and it's implications for society through insights into the daily experiences of ordinary users. Drawing on an original study of non-professional, 'ordinary' users at home, this book examines how people interpret, domesticate and creatively appropriate the Internet by integrating it into the projects and ......
Cutting though the exaggerated and fanciful beliefs about the new possibilities of `net life', Hine produces a distinctive understanding of the significance of the Internet and addresses such questions as: what challenges do the new technologies of communication pose for research methods? Does the Internet force us to rethink traditional ......
Many organizations have had to live and learn over the last twenty years over the application of information and communication technology, and new applications and pitfalls continue to arise. Information Communication Technology in Organizations gives an overview of the most important factors that determine whether the application of ICT in organizations will succeed or fail. The text pays attention to technical, organizational and economic perspectives as well as examining psychological and user perspectives. By integrating these perspectives, the text describes all of the phases of ICT in organizations: adoption, implementation, use and effects. The book includes case studies and has been written for advanced undergraduates and postgraduates of information studies, business studies and communication science.
