The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology - Innovation, Actors, and Contexts (Hardcover)

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 ICT's 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 computer, 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.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	August 2004
Editors:	Chrisanthi Avgerou • Claudio Ciborra
Authors:	Frank Land
Dimensions:	242 x 163 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	312
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-925356-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Information theory > General Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business mathematics & systems > General Books > Business & Economics > Industry & industrial studies > Media, information & communication industries > Information technology industries
LSN:	0-19-925356-0
Barcode:	9780199253562

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