Information and Communication Technologies

Visions and Realities

By: William H. Dutton (Editor)

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Hardcover | 31 October 1996

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Information and Communication Technologies Visions and Realities illuminates the social and economic implications of advances in information and communication technologies. It has been written and edited to reach a broad audience across the social sciences interested in constructive ways of thinking about the social dynamics of the revolution in digital media. Based on a decade of research undertaken by the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT), this book explains: BL how social factors influence technological innovation and convergence; BL why organizations seek to transform work, services, and management; BL ways in which households domesticate new media; and BL how public policy and regulation shape the impact of technology on employment, media concentration, privacy, and access in an information society. The thirty contributors include leading figures in the field such as Walter Baer, Jay Blumler, Peter Cochrane, Rod Coombs, Bill Dutton, Chris Freeman, Nicholas Garnham, John Goddard, Kenneth Kraemer, Donald MacKenzie, Robin Mansell, Bill Melody, Roger Silverstone, Robin Williams, and Steve Woolgar.

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`Beautifully produced by the Oxford University Press, carefully edited, and its 22 short chapters feature essays by a larger number of the most prominent researchers in the Information and Communication Technology areas ... It is the sort of book that will appeal to anyone seriously interested in ICTs and their pervasive influence in all advanced societies. Who can resist the considered views of leading researchers in such an appealing form in such an attractive-looking book?' European Journal of Communication `This book provides an interesting and rich synthesis of some of the main results of the impressive amount of research activities promoted in the United Kingdom by PICT ... the book aims at helping the understanding of the critical options facing individuals and societies so as to make possible better informed judgements on the implications for policy and practice.' Journal of Research Policy ...Bill Dutton, the last Director of PICT has done a most excellent job in his editing of this volume. Technovation, 19 (1999). S MacDonald

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies Computing & I.T.Information Technology General Issue Ethical & Social Aspects of IT Business & Management Business Mathematics & Systems Computer Science Management & Management Techniques Engineering & Technology

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List of Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction
Social Dimensions of the Technical: Social, Cultural, and Political Processes Shaping Technological Development and Innovation	p. 1
THe Two-Edged Nature of Technological Change: Employment and Unemployment	p. 2
The Information Society: Competing Perspectives on the Social and Economic Implications of Information and Communication Technologies	p. 3
The Social Shaping of Technology	p. 4
Computers, 'Bugs', and the Sociology of Mathematical Proof	p. 5
Technologies as Cultural Artefacts	p. 6
Constraints on Multimedia Convergence
Information and Communication Technologies in Organizations, Management, and Work: Reinforcing and Transforming the Structure, Processes, and Geography of the Firm	p. 7
The Factory of the Future and the Productivity Paradox	p. 8
Revolution in the Office? Implications for Women's Paid Work	p. 9
Computer Power and Human Limits	p. 11
Why Geography Will Still Matter: What Jobs Go Where?
Living in an Information Society: Information and Communication Technologies in the Home, Education, and Democratic Processes	p. 12
Future Imperfect: Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life	p. 13
The Cultural Dimension of Communication Technology and Policy: The Experience of Satellite Television in Europe	p. 14
Learning and Education in an Information Society	p. 15
Innovation in Public Service Delivery	p. 16
The Information Polity: Electronic Democracy, Privacy, and Surveillance
Public Policy and Regulation: Actors, Goals, and Strategies	p. 17
The Strategic Value of Policy Research in the Information Economy	p. 18
IT and Economic Development: International Competitiveness	p. 19
Telecommunication Infrastructures and Regional Development	p. 20
Telecommunication Infrastructure Competition: The Costs of Delay	p. 21
Innovation in Telecommunication Regulation: Realizing National Policy Goals in a Global Marketplace	p. 22
The Politics of Information and Communication Policy: The Information Superhighway
The Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT)
PICT Policy Research Forums
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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