The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies

by Mansell, Robin; Avgerou, Chrisanthi; Quah, Danny; Silverstone, Roger

• ISBN13: 9780199266234
• ISBN10: 0199266239
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-05-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The production and consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (or ICTs) have become embedded within our societies. The influence and implications of this have an impact at a macro level, in the way our governments, economies, and businesses operate, and in our everyday lives. This handbook is about the many challenges presented by ICTs. It sets out an intellectual agenda that examines the implications of ICTs for individuals, organizations, democracy, and the economy. Explicity interdisciplinary, and combining empirical research with theoretical work, it is organised around four themes covering the knowledge economy; organizational dynamics, strategy, and design; governance and democracy; and culture, community and new media literacies. It provides a comprehensive resource for those working in the social sciences, and in the physical sciences and engineering fields, with leading contemporary research informed principally by the disciplines of anthropology, economics, philosophy, politics, and sociology.

Author Biography

Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media and the Internet in the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is internationally known for her work on the social, economic, and technical issues arising from new technologies, especially in the computer and telecommunication industries. Her research examines the integration of new technologies into society, the interaction between engineering design and the structure of markets, and the sources of regulatory effectiveness and failure. She has contributed to policy discussion and formulation for the liberalization of the telecommunication sector, the development of electronic commerce, the governance of universal access, and developing country responses to globalization. She serves as and academic governor of the LSE, as a Trustee of the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, and is President of IAMCR (International Association for Media and Communications Research) 2004-2008.
Chrisanthi Avgerou is Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main interests concern the relationship of IT to organizational change and the role of IT in socio-economic development. She is chairperson of the IFIP Technical Committee 9 on Social Implications of Information Technology and she chaired the IFIP WG 9.4 group on computers in developing countries from 1996 till 2003. Among her recent publications are Information Systems and Global Diversity, and The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts.
Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His work is concerned with economic growth, income inequality, new technology, intellectual assets, information technology and the weightless economy.
Roger Silverstone is Professor of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Previous publications include Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe (Ashgate, 2005) and Why Study the Media? (Sage, 1999).

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. xii
List of tables	p. xiii
List of contributors	p. xiv
The challenges of ICTs	p. 1
The Knowledge Economy and ICTs
The ICT paradigm	p. 34
Markets and policies in new knowledge economies	p. 55
Globalization of the ICT labour force	p. 75
Productivity and ICTs: A review of the evidence	p. 100
Economic policy analysis and the Internet: Coming to terms with a telecommunications anomaly	p. 148
Internet diffusion and the geography of the digital divide in the United States	p. 168
The economics of ICTs: Building blocks and implications	p. 196
Organizational Dynamics, Strategy, Design, and ICTs
On confronting some common myths of IS strategy discourse	p. 225
Information technology sourcing: Fifteen years of learning	p. 244
ICT, organizations, and networks	p. 273
Information technology and the dynamics of organizational change	p. 293
Making sense of ICT, new media, and ethics	p. 314
Governance, Democracy, and ICTs
Electronic networks, power & democracy	p. 339
e-Democracy: The history and future of an idea	p. 362
Communicative entitlements and democracy: The future of the digital divide debate	p. 383
Governance and state organization in the digital era	p. 404
Privacy protection and ICT: Issues, instruments, and concepts	p. 427
Surveillance, power, and everyday life	p. 449
Culture, Community, and New Media Literacies
New media literacies: At the intersection of technical, cultural, and discursive knowledges	p. 473
Youthful experts? A critical appraisal of children's emerging Internet literacy	p. 494
The interrelations between online and offline: Questions, issues, and implications	p. 514
ICTs and political movements	p. 537
ICTs and communities in the twenty-first century: Challenges and perspectives	p. 561
ICTs and inequality: Net gains for women?	p. 581
Index	p. 601
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