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OverviewEvolving out of a research project on information technology and society, the book explores the digitization of the American city. Laguerre examines the impact of changes to various sectors of society, brought about by the advent of information technology and the Internet upon daily life in the contemporary American metropolis. The book focuses on actual information technology practices in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco metropolitan area, explaining how those practices are remoulding social relations, global interaction and the workplace environment. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. LaguerrePublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2005 Weight: 0.296kg ISBN: 9781349546091ISBN 10: 1349546097 Pages: 211 Publication Date: 01 January 2005 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction IT as Process and Globalization as Outcome Teleworkers and Telemanagers: IT and Telecommuting in the Digital City The Digital Office Virtual City Hall: The Governance of Local E-Governance Virtual Diasporas and Cyberspace Virtual Time: The Processuality of the Cyberweek Conclusion: The Digital City as the Virtual Embodiment of the Global CityReviews'...it has been a pleasure to review a book that seems to offer to the reader, as a matter of course, the solidity of facts, data and references. This has been achieved without boring the reader...The author achieves fully and successfully his intent.' - Lanfranco Aceti, Information, Communication& Society Author InformationMICHEL S. LAGUERRE is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published several books, including The Global Ethnopolis; Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society, Urban Multiculturalism and Globalisation in New York City, Diasporic Citizenship, The Informal City, and Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things. His most recent book Diasporic Politics; Transnational Networks of Global Governance is forthcoming. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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