Including practical guidance and analytical insights, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform. The dicussion of topics is complemented by case studies from the US, UK, Europe and developing countries.
Including practical guidance and analytical insights, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform. The dicussion of topi...
We are often told that we are living in an information society or that we are information workers. But what exactly do these claims mean, and how might they be verified?
We are often told that we are living in an information society or that we are information workers. But what exactly do these claims mean, and how migh...
Featuring practical guidance and analytical analysis, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform and includes case studies from USA, UK, Europe and developing countries.
Featuring practical guidance and analytical analysis, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform and includes case stud...
The Politics of Cyberconflict focuses on the implications that the phenomenon of cyberconflict (conflict in computer mediated enivironments and the internet) has on politics, society and culture.
Athina Karatzogianni proposes a new framework for analyzing this new phenomenon, which distinguishes between two types of cyberconflict, ethnoreligious and sociopolitical, and uses theories of conflict, social movement and the media.
A comprehensive survey of content, opinion and theory in several connected fields, relating not only to information...
The Politics of Cyberconflict focuses on the implications that the phenomenon of cyberconflict (conflict in computer mediated eniv...
Migrants & diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information & communication technologies. This text explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, & keep connected with their communities of origin.
Migrants & diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information & communication technologies. This text explores the multifaceted role played b...
Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in China. In 2008, the total of Internet users in China had reached 253 million (in comparison with 22.5 million in 2001). Yet, despite rapid growth, the Internet in China is so far a predominantly urban-youth phenomenon, with young people under 30 (especially those under 24), mostly members of the only-child generation, as the main group of the netizens' population. As both youth and the Internet hold the potential to inflict, or at least contribute...
Fengshu Liu situates the lives of Chinese youth and the growth of the Internet against the backdrop of rapid and profound social transformation in Chi...
In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, he demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political, and cultural systems of contemporary society have been transformed by new ICTs. Fuchs highlights how new forms of cooperation and competition are advanced and supported by the internet in subsystems of society and also discusses opportunities and risks of the information society.
In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemp...
This study seeks to explain three models of network governance embedded in digital practices that the mainstream monotheistic religions Judaism, Catholic Christianity, and Islam have used to lead and manage the worldwide distribution of their local nodes, exploring the connection between network governance and its digital embeddedness and showing how the latter enhances the performance of the former.
This study seeks to explain three models of network governance embedded in digital practices that the mainstream monotheistic religions Judaism, Ca...
How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book introduces an 'alien people' inhabiting a specific common virtual space in the World Wide Web, while the members of this space - most of them ethnic Paraguayans - are physically located in many different parts of the world.
By developing an innovative and 'uniquely adequate' set of research methods, the author explores the interrelation of media and migration practices in their own right and sheds light not only on the living conditions of...
How is global togetherness possible? How does the availability of the Internet alter migrants' everyday lives and senses of belonging? This book in...
This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to reflect upon the past, present, and future of new media research. The chapters examine the implications of new media technologies on everyday life, existing social institutions, and the society at large at various levels of analysis. Macro-level analyses of changing techno-social formation - such as discussions of the rise of surveillance society and the "fifth estate" - are combined with studies on concrete and specific new media phenomena, such...
This volume puts together the works of a group of distinguished scholars and active researchers in the field of media and communication studies to ref...
