Social information technology connecting society and cultural issues
Title:
Social information technology connecting society and cultural issues
Author:
Chen, Irene.
ISBN:
9781599047768
Publication Information:
Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
Physical Description:
electronic texts (xxv, 469 p. : ill.) : digital files.
Contents:
Historical Perspectives on Analog and Digital Equity: A Critical Race Theory Approach / Patricia Randolph Leigh -- Exploring Gender Differences in Computer-Related Behaviour: Past, Present, and Future / Robin Kay -- The Reversal of Technology / Julia Nevárez -- A Comparative Analysis of Online Peace Movement Organizations / Noriko Hara, Pnina Shachaf -- Planning for the Worst, Bringing Out the Best? Lessons from Y2K / Kevin Quigley -- The Impact of the USA Patriot Act on Social Diversity in Cyberspace / Marc Jung-Whan de Jong -- Exploring Serres' Atlas, Hodges' Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons / Peter Jones -- The Social Glue in Open Source: Incomplete Contracts and Informal Credits / Matthias Bärwolff -- Musique Concrètization: Music, Technology and Critical Constructivism / Jean Hébert -- The Social Side of Security / Richard G. Taylor -- The Cultural Factors in Electronic Monitoring / Jeng-Chung Victor Chen, J. Michael Tarn -- Measuring IS Success in Small- and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Samoa / Filifotu Vaai, Val Hooper -- Technology and Culture: Indian Experiences / Ramesh C. Sharma, Sanjaya Mishra -- ICT-Enabled Communication in the New Zealand Family Court: A Multistakeholder Study / Kay Fielden -- Technology Access Points in Turkey: A Case Study on Internet Cafés and Their Roles in Society / Yavuz Inal, Zehra Akyol, Orhan Erden --
Web Information Retrieval: Towards Social Information Search Assistants / Guillaume Cabanac ... [et al.] -- Twin Wiki Wonders? Wikipedia and Wikibooks as Powerful Tools for Online Collaborative Writing / Meng-Fen Grace Lin, Curtis J. Bonk, Suthiporn Sajjapanroj -- Cultural Variables and Instructional Engineering / Christine Simard, Josianne Basque -- Technology and Continuing Professional Education: The Reality Beyond the Hype / Maggie McPherson ... [et al.] -- Investigating and Encouraging Student Nurses' ICT Engagement / Michael R. Johnson -- Social Implications of Three Different Models of Distributed Learning / Robin Mason, Frank Rennie -- Sociotechnical System Design for Learning: Bridging the Digital Divide with CompILE / Benjamin E. Erlandson -- Structural Coupling as Foundation for Instructional Design / Jeanette Bopry, Donald J. Cunningham -- Instructional Design: Sex Driven? / Maja Pivec, Mary Panko.
Abstract:
An interdisciplinary field, technology and culture, or social informatics, is part of a larger body of socio-economic, socio-psychological, and cultural research that examines the ways in which technology and groups within society are shaped by social forces within organizations, politics, economics, and culture. Given the popularity and increased usage of technology, it is imperative that educators, trainers, consultants, administrators, researchers, and professors monitor the current trends and issues relating to social side of technology in order to meet the needs and challenges of tomorrow. This book provides educators, trainers, consultants, administrators, researchers, and professors with a fundamental research source for definitions, antecedents, and consequences of social informatics and the cultural aspect of technology. It also addresses the major cultural/societal issues in social informatics technology and society such as the Digital Divide, the government and technology law, information security and privacy, cyber ethics, technology ethics, and the future of social informatics and technology, as well as concepts from technology in developing countries.
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Electronic Access:
Chapter PDFs via platform: http://services.igi-global.com/resolvedoi/resolve.aspx?doi=10.4018/978-1-59904-774-4