The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and ContextsOUP Oxford, 17/06/2004 - 306 من الصفحات 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. |
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... development . She is vice - chair of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on social implications of IT and past chair of IFIP WG 9.4 on computers in developing countries . Among her latest publications is Information Systems and Global ...
... development . She is vice - chair of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on social implications of IT and past chair of IFIP WG 9.4 on computers in developing countries . Among her latest publications is Information Systems and Global ...
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... developing countries . This has involved extensive fieldwork in India , including work sponsored by the UK Department for International Develop- ment , that has studied the impact of different structures of local government on the ...
... developing countries . This has involved extensive fieldwork in India , including work sponsored by the UK Department for International Develop- ment , that has studied the impact of different structures of local government on the ...
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... developing countries , they are interested in understanding cases where both built - in inscriptions of ICT prove incapable of imposing the technology's institutional and behavioural characteris- tics and where local actors are not able ...
... developing countries , they are interested in understanding cases where both built - in inscriptions of ICT prove incapable of imposing the technology's institutional and behavioural characteris- tics and where local actors are not able ...
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... development , which portrays ICT as a solution to problems plaguing developing countries and a mechanism to leapfrog over those difficulties . He strongly criticizes the way the emphasis on e - governance by international devel- opment ...
... development , which portrays ICT as a solution to problems plaguing developing countries and a mechanism to leapfrog over those difficulties . He strongly criticizes the way the emphasis on e - governance by international devel- opment ...
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a story of transitions and opportunities | 38 |
a somewhat | 62 |
Towards a sociology of information technology | 77 |
Knowledge as infrastructure | 103 |
An ecology of distributed knowledge work | 119 |
Actor network theory and cultural aspects of interpretative studies | 129 |
technology and contextembedded action | 140 |
understanding the social context of IS innovation | 162 |
new route to development | 185 |
Reconstructing information systems evaluation | 207 |
Reflections on information systems strategizing | 231 |
Socially selfdestructing systems | 263 |
Index | 287 |
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