Virtual Society?

Technology, Cyberbole, Reality
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-924875-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 368 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 710 g

Autoren/Hrsg.

Woolgar, Steve

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Technologie: Soziale & Ethische Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wissenssoziologie, Wissenschaftssoziologie, Techniksoziologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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, Sally Coates, and Wes Sharrock: Getting Real about Surveillance and Privacy at Work

- 9: Charles Crook and Paul Light: Virtual Society and the Cultural Practice of Studey

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Steve Woolgar was Professor of Sociology, Head of the Department of Human Sciences, and Director of CRICT (Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology) until 2000. He has held visiting appointments at McGill University, MIT, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Mines, Paris, and University of California, San Diego. He is the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship and a Fulbright Senior Scholarship, and the winner of an ESRC Senior Reseach Fellowship. He moved to the University of Oxford in autumn 2000 to take up the Chair of Marketing at the Saïd Business School, University of Oxford. He is currently Director of the ESRC' Virtual Society?' programme.