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OverviewThis work 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Steve Woolgar (, Chair of Marketing, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.710kg ISBN: 9780199248759ISBN 10: 0199248753 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 26 September 2002 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: 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, Sally Coates, and Wes Sharrock: Getting Real about Surveillance and Privacy at Work 9: Charles Crook and Paul Light: Virtual Society and the Cultural Practice of Studey 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 CommentReviews... intelligent, well-grounded and carefully drawn insights into the take up and use of ICTs ... intriguing case studies ... Throughout, Woolgar's book provides concrete sociological evidence to justify the question mark in the title. European Journal of Communication From Woolgar's five rules of virtuality to Pollner's delightful account of his adventures as a dot com investor, this challenging collection will be essential reading for all of those interested in the social relations of the new information technologies. Donald MacKenzie, Professor of Sociology, Edinburgh University; Author of Inventing Accuracy This book shows the essential contribution of social sciences to the understanding of the network society, our society. Based on scholarly research, it provides a rigorous account of the diverse effects of information and communication technologies on the social fabric of our lives. It is a great antidote against mythologies and media hype on this critical subject matter. Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley This stunning volume is obligatory reading for all those studying cyberspace and its contents and discontents. It is one of the first deep empirical studies of this scope analyzing the changes occasioned by the widespread development of networked information technologies. A subtle, intertwined scholarly effort, this book is a landmark achievement, marking the maturity of social studies of computing and IT. Susan Leigh Star, Professor Of Communication, University of California at San Diego This work shows social scientists seriously getting to grips with the complexitites of the social implications of electronic technologies. It should also be read widely beyond this community, stimulating dialogue with others working in the area, such as industry practitioners, government planners, and academics from other disciplines and societies. Geoff Walsham, Professor of Management Studies, Judge Institute, University of Cambridge Author InformationSteve Woolgar was Professor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Human Sciences, and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) until 2000. He has held visiting appointments at McGill University, MIT, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris, and University of California, San Diego. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Fulbright Senior Scholarship, and the winner of an ESRC Senior Reseach Fellowship. He moved to the University of Oxford in autumn 2000 to take up the Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is currently Director of the ESRC' Virtual Society?' programme. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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