عنوان

Information technology and society :

0803979800

0803979819

9780803979802

9780803979819

0083979819

Information technology and society :

[Book]

a reader /

edited by Nick Heap [and others].

Thousand Oaks, Calif. :

Sage Publications in association with the Open University,

1995.

436 pages :

illustrations ;

24 cm

Open University

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Nick Heap -- The Social Shaping of Technology / David Edge -- The Hacker Crackdown: Evolution of the US Telephone Network / Bruce Sterling -- Theorising the IT/Society Relationship / Hughie Mackay -- The Roots of the Information Society Idea / David Lyon -- A Gendered Socio-technical Construction: the Smart House / Ann-Jorunn Berg -- Access and Inequality / Ray Thomas -- Robotics, Automation and a New Industrial Revolution / Paul Kennedy -- The Pursuit of Flexible Specialization in Britain and West Germany / Christel Lane -- Computerized Machine Tools, Manpower Consequences and Skill Utilization: A Study of British and West German Manufacturing Firms / Gert Hartmann, Ian Nicholas, Arndt Sorge and Malcolm Warner -- Technological Change and the Future of Work / Peter Senker -- Technological Change at Work / Ian McLoughlin and Jon Clark -- Do Companies Need Technology-based Training? / David Hawkridge -- Computer Supported Collaborative Learning / Anthony Kaye.

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This text explores the social and technological issues surrounding the introduction of IT; presents perspectives on the social and technological processes involved in the uses of, control of and access to IT; and examines the assumptions underpinining technological development.

Information technology-- Social aspects.

Informatiemaatschappij.

Information technology-- Social aspects.

301:518

303.48

518:301

Heap, N. W.

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