Social information technology connecting society and cultural issues /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Chen, Irene., Kidd, Terry T.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Information society > Social aspects.; Information technology > Social aspects.; Social change.; Communities of practice and cyberspace; Community informatics; Community technology; Community technology centers; Computer mediated communication; Cyber ethics; Cyberism, censorship & freedom of expression; Digital divide; E-democracy & the public sphere; Equality and access; Ethics and technology; Issues in cyberspace; Issues in technology and government; Legal ramifications of technology; Multicultural & social issues in technology; Nonprofit technology; Online impersonations; Online personalities; Psychology and technology; Role of governments and institutions legislation; Social informatics; Social software; Surveillance technologies; Technology and crimes; Technology and cultural and urban studies; Technology and gender; Technology and public policy; Technology and society studies; Technology law; Virtual communities
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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...

Table of 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.