Steve Woolgar

Virtual Society?

Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The diversity of disciplinary perspectives is brought to bear in a central message laid out in the opening discussion of the 'Five Rules of Virtuality', that with due reflexive caution and ironic sensitivity, general messages can be drawn from the observations of particular substantive contexts. In particular, claims that we are moving to a 'virtual society' need to be tempered by a reassessment of connections between what counts as 'real' and 'virtual'. This book will appeal to students and researchers in a very wide range of disciplines, both within and beyond the social sciences and management, and to all practitioners struggling with the realities of the new virtual technologies

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This book investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). All aspects of our social, cultural, economic, and political life stand to be affected by their continued massive growth, but are fundamental shifts already taking place in the way in which we behave, organize, and interact as a direct result of the new technologies? The contributors to the volume argue that their transformative effects amount to our transition to a virtual society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: OUP Oxford
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. September 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 559g
• ISBN-13: 9780199248766
• ISBN-10: 0199248761
• Artikelnr.: 20996057

Autorenporträt

Steve Woolgar is Professor of Science and Technology Studies at Linköping University and Professor of Marketing Emeritus at Oxford University.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Steve Woolgar: Introduction: Five Rules of Virtuality
* 2: Sally Wyatt, Graham Thomas, and Tiziana Terranova: They Came, They
Surfed, They Went Back to the Beach: Conceptualizing Use and Non-use
of the Internet
* 3: G. M. Peter Swann and Tim P. Watts: Visualization Needs Vision:
The Pre-paradigmatic Character of Virtual Reality
* 4: Susan E. Watt, Martin Lea, and Russell Spears: How Social is
Internet Communication? A Reappraisal of Bandwidth and Anonymity
Effects
* 5: Sonia Liff, Fred Steward, and Peter Watts: New Public Places for
Internet Access: Networks for Practice-Based Learning and Social
Inclusion
* 6: David Knights, Faith Noble, Theo Vurdubakis, and Hugh Willmott:
Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in
Narratives of the e-Economy
* 7: Brian McGrail: Confronting Electronic Surveillance: Desiring and
Resisting New Technologies
* 8: David Mason, Graham Button, Gloria Lankshear, and Sally Coates:
Getting Real about Surveillance and Privacy at Work
* 9: Charles Crook and Paul Light: Virtual Society and the Cultural
Practice of Study
* 10: Sarah Nettleton, Nicholas Pleace, Roger Burrows, Steven Muncer,
and Brian Loader: The Reality of Virtual Social Support
* 11: Andreas Wittel, Celia Lury, and Scott Lash: Real and Virtual
Connectivity: New Media in London
* 12: Steven D. Brown and Geoffrey Lightfoot: Presence, Absence, and
Accountability: Email and the Mediation of Organizational Memory
* 13: Melvin Pollner: Inside the Bubble: Communion, Cognition, and Deep
Play at the Intersection of Wall Street and Cyberspace
* 14: John Hughes, Mark Rouncefield, and Pete Tolmie: The Day-to-Day
Work of Standardization: A Sceptical Note on the Reliance on IT in a
Retail Bank
* 15: Jon Agar, Sarah Green, and Penny Harvey: Cotton to
Computers: From Industrial to Information Revolutions
* 16: Geoff Cooper, Nicola Green, Richard Harper, and Gerald Murtagh:
Mobile Society? Technology, Distance, and Presence
* 17: Marilyn Strathern: Abstraction and Decontextualization: An
Anthropological Comment