The social study of information and communication technology : innovation, actors, and contexts

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The social study of information and communication technology : innovation, actors, and contexts

edited by Chrisanthi Avgerou, Claudio Ciborra, and Frank Land

Oxford University Press, 2004

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  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographies and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780199253524

内容説明

This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICTs permeate every sphere of society - business, education, leisure, government, etc. - it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computers, between society and technology. For example, the user may represent a much broader set of actors than 'the user' conventionally found in many texts: the operator, the customer, the citizen, the gendered individual, the entrepreneur, the 'poor', the student. Each actor uses ICT in different ways. This book examines these issues, deploying a number of methods such as Actor Network Theory, Socio-Technical Systems, and phenomenological approaches. Management concerns about strategy and productivity are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization. Topics range from long-standing themes in the study of IT in organizations such as implementation, strategy, and evaluation, to general analysis of IT as socio-economic change A distinguished group of contributors, including Bruno Latour, Saskia Sassen, Robert Galliers, Frank Land, Ian Angel, and Richard Boland, offer the reader a rich set of perspectives and ideas on the relationship between ICT and society, organizational knowledge and innovation.

目次

  • Introduction
  • PART I: FOUNDATIONS
  • 1. Encountering Information Systems as a Phenomenon
  • 2. Solution is the Problem: A Story of Transitions and Opportunities
  • 3. On Using ANT for Studying Information Systems: A (Somewhat) Socratic Dialogue
  • 4. Towards a Sociology of Information Technology
  • PART II: THEORIES AT WORK
  • 5. Knowledge as Infrastructure
  • 6. An Ecology of Distributed Practice Involving Knowledge Work
  • 7. Actor Network Theory and Cultural Aspects of Interpretive Studies
  • 8. Farewell to Constructivism: Technology and Context-Embedded Action
  • 9. Framing IS Studies: Understanding the Context of IS Innovation
  • PART III: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS
  • 10. Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to Development or New Form of Dependency
  • 11. Re-Constructing Information Systems Evaluation
  • 12. Reflections on Information Systems Strategizing
  • 13. Socially Self-Destructing Systems
巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780199253562

内容説明

This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICT's permeate every sphere of society-business, education, leisure, government, etc.-it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computer, between society and technology. For example, the user may represent a much broader set of actors than 'the user' conventionally found in many texts: the operator, the customer, the citizen, the gendered individual, the entrepreneur, the 'poor', the student. Each actor uses ICT in different ways. This book examines these issues, deploying a number of methods such as Actor Network Theory, Socio-Technical Systems, and phenomenological approaches. Management concerns about strategy and productivity are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization. Topics range from long-standing themes in the study of IT in organizations such as implementation, strategy, and evaluation, to general analysis of IT as socio-economic change. A distinguished group of contributors, including Bruno Latour, Saskia Sassen, Robert Galliers, Frank Land, Ian Angel, and Richard Boland, offer the reader a rich set of perspectives and ideas on the relationship between ICT and society, organizational knowledge and innovation.

目次

  • Introduction
  • PART I: FOUNDATIONS
  • 1. Encountering Information Systems as a Phenomenon
  • 2. Solution is the Problem: A Story of Transitions and Opportunities
  • 3. On Using ANT for Studying Information Systems: A (Somewhat) Socratic Dialogue
  • 4. Towards a Sociology of Information Technology
  • PART II: THEORIES AT WORK
  • 5. Knowledge as Infrastructure
  • 6. An Ecology of Distributed Practice Involving Knowledge Work
  • 7. Actor Network Theory and Cultural Aspects of Interpretive Studies
  • 8. Farewell to Constructivism: Technology and Context-Embedded Action
  • 9. Framing IS Studies: Understanding the Context of IS Innovation
  • PART III: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS
  • 10. Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to Development or New Form of Dependency
  • 11. Re-Constructing Information Systems Evaluation
  • 12. Reflections on Information Systems Strategizing
  • 13. Socially Self-Destructing Systems

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