New Technologies at Work: People, Screens and Social Virtuality

ISBN-13: 9781859736494 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 262 str.

Christina Garsten; Helena Wulff

Opis

Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. This book investigates both the impact of information technology on working practices and, more complexly, how I.T. is bound up in social, political, and economic issues. How are power relations established and maintained through transnational networking? Can the Internet be used as a political tool to manipulate the 'masses'? In what ways has digital technology changed the aesthetics and practices of the Euro-American dance world? What initiatives have been undertaken to ensure people aren't excluded from the digital world and have they succeeded? Through answering these and many more questions, this groundbreaking book is an essential guide to the modern day world.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements, Notes on Contributors, Introduction: From People of the Book to People of the Screen, 1. Living with New (Ideals of) Technology, 2. The Computer as a Focus of Inattention: Five Scenarios concerning Hospital Porters, 3. Digital Ditches: Working in the Virtual Grass Roots, 4. Real-time, Real-place Market: Transnational Connections and Disconnections in Financial Markets, 5. Mobile Workplacing: Office Design, Space and Technology, 6. Claiming the Future: Speed, Business Rhetoric and Computer Practice, 7. Networking as a Form of Life: The Transnational Movement of Internet Pioneers, 8. Mainstream Rebels: Informalization and Regulation in a Virtual World, 9. Steps on Screen: Technoscapes, Visualization and Globalization in Dance, 10. Screening the Classroom: Students, Teachers and Computers in an Urban American School, 11. Open-Source Software Development as Gift Culture: Work and Identity Formation in an Internet Community, Index

O autorze

Christina Garsten is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University. Helena Wulff is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University.