M. Laguerre

Broschiertes Buch

The Digital City

The American Metropolis and Information Technology

Beschreibung

Evolving out of a research project on information technology and society, the book explores the digitization of the American city. Laguerre examines the impact of changes to various sectors of society, brought about by the advent of information technology and the Internet upon daily life in the contemporary American metropolis. The book focuses on actual information technology practices in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco metropolitan area, explaining how those practices are remoulding social relations, global interaction and the workplace environment.

Autor

MICHEL S. LAGUERRE is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published several books, including The Global Ethnopolis; Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society, Urban Multiculturalism and Globalisation in New York City, Diasporic Citizenship , The Informal City, and Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things. His most recent book Diasporic Politics; Transnational Networks of Global Governance is forthcoming.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-54609-1
• 1st ed. 2005
• Seitenzahl: 211
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 293g
• ISBN-13: 9781349546091
• ISBN-10: 1349546097
• Artikelnr.: 45074059

Rezensionen

'...it has been a pleasure to review a book that seems to offer to the reader, as a matter of course, the solidity of facts, data and references. This has been achieved without boring the reader...The author achieves fully and successfully his intent.' - Lanfranco Aceti, Information, Communication& Society