Virtual Society?

Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

Steve Woolgar

368 pages, parution le 13/12/2002

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Résumé

This book investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). Are fundamental shifts already taking place in the way in which we behave, organize, and interact as a direct result of their implementation? Providing a comprehensive set of detailed empirical studies of the genesis and use of these new technologies, the book also presents some surprising counterintuitive results.

Readership: Academics and postgraduate students in the fields of management, sociology, political science, and media and communication studies; Business practitioners and policy makers who wish to understand the significance of digital technologies for society, the economy, and social organization.

Contents

1 Steve Woolgar: Introduction: Five Rules of Virtuality
2 Sally Wyatt, Graham Thomas, and Tiziana Terranova: They Came, They Surfed, They Went Back to the Beach: Conceptualizing Use and Non-use of the Internet
3 G. M. Peter Swann and Tim P. Watts: Visualization Needs Vision: The Pre-paradigmatic Character of Virtual Reality
4 Susan E. Watt, Martin Lea, and Russell Spears: How Social is Internet Communication? A Reappraisal of Bandwidth and Anonymity Effects
5 Sonia Liff, Fred Steward, and Peter Watts: New Public Places for Internet Access: Networks for Practice-Based Learning and Social Inclusion
6 David Knights, Faith Noble, Theo Vurdubakis, and Hugh Willmott: Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the e-Economy
7 Brian McGrail: Confronting Electronic Surveillance: Desiring and Resisting New Technologies
8 David Mason, Graham Button, Gloria Lankshear, and Sally Coates: Getting Real about Surveillance and Privacy at Work
9 Charles Crook and Paul Light: Virtual Society and the Cultural Practice of Study
10 Sarah Nettleton, Nicholas Pleace, Roger Burrows, Steven Muncer, and Brian Loader: The Reality of Virtual Social Support
11 Andreas Wittel, Celia Lury, and Scott Lash: Real and Virtual Connectivity: New Media in London
12 Steven D. Brown and Geoffrey Lightfoot: Presence, Absence, and Accountability: Email and the Mediation of Organizational Memory
13 Melvin Pollner: Inside the Bubble: Communion, Cognition, and Deep Play at the Intersection of Wall Street and Cyberspace
14 John Hughes, Mark Rouncefield, and Pete Tolmie: The Day-to-Day Work of Standardization: A Sceptical Note on the Reliance on IT in a Retail Bank
15 Jon Agar, Sarah Green, and Penny Harvey: Cotton to Computers: From Industrial to Information Revolutions
16 Geoff Cooper, Nicola Green, Richard Harper, and Gerald Murtagh: Mobile Society? Technology, Distance, and Presence
17 Marilyn Strathern: Abstraction and Decontextualization: An Anthropological Comment

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Steve Woolgar, Chair of Marketing, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford

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Éditeur(s)	Oxford University Press
Auteur(s)	Steve Woolgar
Parution	13/12/2002
Nb. de pages	368
Format	15,5 x 23,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	531g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780199248766
ISBN13	978-0-19-924876-6