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9781859736494

New Technologies at Work People, Screens and Social Virtuality

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    9781859736494

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  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2004-04-17
  • Publisher: Berg Pub Ltd
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Summary

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.

Author Biography

Christina Garsten is Senior Lecturer, Stockholm University.

Helena Wulff is Senior Lecturer, Stockholm University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Introduction: From People of the Book to People of the Screen 1(6)
Christina Garsten
Helena Wulff
Living with New (Ideals of) Technology
7(18)
Daniel Miller
The Computer as a Focus of Inattention: Five Scenarios concerning Hospital Porters
25(20)
Nigel Rapport
Digital Ditches:Working in the Virtual Grass Roots
45(24)
Sarah Green
Real-time, Real-place Market: Transnational Connections and Disconnections in Financial Markets
69(22)
Anna Hasselstrom
Mobile Workplacing: Office Design, Space and Technology
91(28)
Heinrich Schwarz
Claiming the Future: Speed, Business Rhetoric and Computer Practice
119(26)
Robert Willim
Networking as a Form of Life: The Transnational Movement of Internet Pioneers
145(20)
Paula Uimonen
Mainstream Rebels: Informalization and Regulation in a Virtual World
165(22)
Christina Garsten
David Lerdell
Steps on Screen: Technoscapes, Visualization and Globalization in Dance
187(18)
Helena Wulff
Screening the Classroom: Students, Teachers and Computers in an Urban American School
205(18)
William Washabaugh
Catherine Washabaugh
Mary Roffers
Kira Kaufmann
Open-Source Software Development as Gift Culture: Work and Identity Formation in an Internet Community
223(20)
Magnus Bergquist
Index 243

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