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Virtual Society? : Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

Woolgar, Steve, 1950- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002 [©2009.]

1 online resource (368 pages)

Englisch

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978-0-19-159396-3

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LOC-SH: Information technology -- Social aspects ; Internet -- Social aspects

Electronic books ; local ; Information technology ; Social aspects ; Internet ; Social aspects ; Electronic books

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.

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Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and Boxes -- Abbreviations -- Notes on Contributors -- 1. Five Rules of Virtuality -- 2. They Came, They Surfed, They Went Back to the Beach: Conceptualizing Use and Non-Use of the Internet -- 3. Visualization Needs Vision: The Pre-Paradigmatic Character of Virtual Reality -- 4. How Social is Internet Communication? A Reappraisal of Bandwidth and Anonymity Effects -- 5. New Public Places for Internet Access: Networks for Practice-Based Learning and Social Inclusion -- 6. Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the e-Economy -- 7. Confronting Electronic Surveillance: Desiring and Resisting New Technologies -- 8. Getting Real about Surveillance and Privacy at Work -- 9. Virtual Society and the Cultural Practice of Study -- 10. The Reality of Virtual Social Support -- 11. Real and Virtual Connectivity: New Media in London -- 12. Presence, Absence, and Accountability: E-mail and the Mediation of Organizational Memory -- 13. Inside the Bubble: Communion, Cognition, and Deep Play at the Intersection of Wall Street and Cyberspace -- 14. The Day-to-Day Work of Standardization: A Sceptical Note on the Reliance on IT in a Retail Bank -- 15. Cotton to Computers: From Industrial to Information Revolutions -- 16. Mobile Society? Technology, Distance, and Presence -- 17. Abstraction and Decontextualization: An Anthropological Comment -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.