An examination of how the rapid spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects--for good and for ill. Our age's new technologies of social networkin…
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An examination of how the rapid spread of new forms of social interaction enabled by technology is changing the way humans form groups and exist within them, with profound long-term economic and social effects--for good and for ill. Our age's new technologies of social networkin…
In Pressed for Time, Judy Wajcman explains why we immediately interpret our experiences with digital technology as inexorably accelerating everyday life. She argues that we are not mere hostages to communication devices, and the sense of always being rushed is the result of the …
Leading media scholars consider the social and cultural changes that come with the contemporary development of ubiquitous computing. Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital tel…
Ubiquitous computing and our cultural life promise to become completely interwoven: technical currents feed into our screen culture of digital television, video, home computers, movies, and high-resolution advertising displays. Technology has become at once larger and smaller, m…
Addresses the conditions of knowledge that meke the concept of the "information economy" possible while at the same time obscuring its deleterious effects on material social spaces, including reshaped concepts of labor, subjectivity, and collectivity and intensification of older…
"The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers, and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, rea…
"This book examines the complex roles that texts serve as parts of an organizational cognitive infrastructure. Texts make knowledge and experience tangible and durable. They help shape interactions between people. As professions have become more writing-centered in recent decade…
"This book offers contributions that articulate a set of aspects of information and communication technologies in human and social contexts, such as the individuals, groups, organizations and their management - addressing both descriptive and normative questions. It gives a uniq…
"This book offers contributions that articulate a set of aspects of information and communication technologies in human and social contexts, such as the individuals, groups, organizations and their management - addressing both descriptive and normative questions. It gives a uniq…
"For every person who reads this text on the printed page, many more will read it on a computer screen or mobile device. It's a situation that we increasingly take for granted in our digital era, and while it is indicative of the novelty of twenty-first-century capitalism, it is…