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Social influences on information and communication technology innovations

"This book discusses in great detail the use of actor-network theory in offering explanations for socio-technical phenomena, focusing heavily on information communication technologies"--Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: IGI Global.
Other Authors: Tatnall, Arthur.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2012.
Subjects:
Diffusion of innovations > Social aspects.
Information technology > Social aspects.
Technological innovations > Social aspects.
Actor-network theory.
E-learning
ICT adoption in rural areas
Internet-based self-service technology
Knowledge creation and knowledge transfer
Online communities
Programming languages
Project management
Social networking
Strategic implementation of enterprise architecture
Structuration and actor network theory
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. The use of structuration theory and actor network theory for analysis: case study of a financial institution in South Africa / Tiko Iyamu, Dewald Roode
  • 2. Information infrastructure: an actor-network perspective / Antonio Cordella
  • 3. Adoption of ICT in rural medical general practices in Australia: an actor-network study / Patricia Deering, Arthur Tatnall, Stephen Burgess
  • 4. Having a say: voices for all the actors in ANT research? / Mary Anne Kennan, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, Jim Underwood
  • 5. A socio-technical account of an internet-based self-service technology implementation: why call-centres sometimes 'prevail' in a multi-channel context? / Rennie Naidoo
  • 6. How to recognize an immutable mobile when you find one: translations on innovation and design / Fernando Abreu Gonçalves, José Figueiredo
  • 7. Social network sites: the science of building and maintaining online communities, a perspective from actor-network theory / Nisrine Zammar
  • 8. Negotiating meaning: an ANT approach to the building of innovations / Fernando Abreu Gonçalves, José Figueiredo
  • 9. Theoretical analysis of strategic implementation of enterprise architecture / Tiko Iyamu
  • 10. RAD and other innovative approaches to facilitate superior project management / Rajeev K. Bali, Nilmini Wickramasinghe
  • 11. Desituating context in ubiquitous computing: exploring strategies for the use of remote diagnostic systems for maintenance work / Katrin Jonsson ... [et al.]
  • 12. Negotiating the socio-material in and about information systems: an approach to native methods / Fletcher T. H. Cole
  • 13. On actors, networks, hybrids, black boxes and contesting programming languages / Arthur Tatnall
  • 14. From intermediary to mediator and vice versa: on agency and intentionality of a mundane sociotechnical system / Antonio Díaz Andrade
  • 15. Using actor-network theory to facilitate a superior understanding of knowledge creation and knowledge transfer / Nilmini Wickramasinghe, Arthur Tatnall, Rajeev K. Bali
  • 16. Aspects of e-learning in a university / Karen Manning, Lily Wong, Arthur Tatnall.

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