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
* how social factors influence technological innovation and convergence;
* why organizations seek to transform work, services, and management;
* ways in which households domesticate new media;
* how public policy andregulation 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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780198774969
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-19-877496-9
- Verlag: OUP Oxford
- Erscheinungstermin: 01.08.1997
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 1997
- Produktform: Kartoniert
- Gewicht: 902 g
- Seiten: 484
- Format (B x H x T): 191 x 235 x 26 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt