The social dynamics of information and communication technology
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| Language: | English |
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Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Pub. Company,
c2008.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10240627 |
Table of Contents:
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Notes on editors and contributors
- Introduction / Leslie Haddon, Enid Mante-Meijer and Eugαene Loos
- Disciplinary insights into the social dynamics of innovation and domestication
- Computer anxiety in daily life : old history? / John Beckers, Henk Schmidt and Jelte Wicherts
- ICTs and the human body : an empirical study in five countries / Alberta Contarello, Leopoldina Fortunati, Pedro Gomez Fernandez, Enid Mante-Meijer, Olga Vershinskaya and Daniel Volovici
- The adoption of terrestrial digital TV : technology push, political will or users' choice? / Tomaz Turk, Bartolomeo Sapio and Isabella Maria Palombini
- The flexible room : technology for communication and personalization / Marianne Jensen, Heidi Rognskog Mella and Kristin Thrane
- The Internet as a tool to enable users to organise everyday life
- Uses of the family Internet sites : a virtual community between intimate space and public space / Fanny Carmagnat, Julie Deville and Aurβelia Mardon
- Legal self-help and the Internet / Lieve Gies
- On older people, Internet access and electronic service delivery : a study of sheltered homes / Maria Sourbati
- ICTs in organisational settings : a tool or a curse?
- Resistance to innovation : a case study / Raija Halonen
- Using ICT in human service organizations : an enabling constraint : social workers, new technology and their organization / Eugαene Loos
- The impact of ICT implementations on social interaction in work communities / Niina Rintala
- The future : the boundaries between work and non-work life
- There is no business like small business : the use and meaning of ICTs for micro-enterprises / Jo Pierson
- Teleworking behind the front door : the patterns and meaning of telework in the everyday lives of workers / Arjan de Jong and Enid Mante-Meijer
- Future developments
- Enabling humans to control the ethical behaviour of their virtual peers / Boldur Bζarbat, Andrei Moiceanu and Hermina Anghelescu
- Challenging sensory impairment / Keith Gladstone
- Conclusion / Enid Mante-Meijer, Leslie Haddon and Eugαene Loos
- Index.