The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology
Innovation, Actors, and Contexts
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 17 June 2004
- ISBN 9780199253524
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages312 pages
- Size 234x157x18 mm
- Weight 482 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous tabels and figures 0
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Short description:
As ICTs permeate every sphere of society - business, education, leisure, government, etc. - it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computers, between society and technology. This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. It deploys a number of methods such as Actor Network Theory, Socio-Technical Systems, and phenomenological approaches. Management concerns about strategy and productivity are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization. Topics range from long-standing themes in the study of IT in organizations such as implementation, strategy, and evaluation, to general analysis of IT as socio-economic change.
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This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation.
As ICTs permeate every sphere of society - business, education, leisure, government, etc. - it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computers, between society and technology. For example, the user may represent a much broader set of actors than 'the user' conventionally found in many texts: the operator, the customer, the citizen, the gendered individual, the entrepreneur, the 'poor', the student. Each actor uses ICT in different ways.
This book examines these issues, deploying a number of methods such as Actor Network Theory, Socio-Technical Systems, and phenomenological approaches. Management concerns about strategy and productivity are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization. Topics range from long-standing themes in the study of IT in organizations such as implementation, strategy, and evaluation, to general analysis of IT as socio-economic change
A distinguished group of contributors, including Bruno Latour, Saskia Sassen, Robert Galliers, Frank Land, Ian Angel, and Richard Boland, offer the reader a rich set of perspectives and ideas on the relationship between ICT and society, organizational knowledge and innovation.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Part I: Foundations
Encountering Information Systems as a Phenomenon
Solution is the Problem: A Story of Transitions and Opportunities
On Using ANT for Studying Information Systems: A (Somewhat) Socratic Dialogue
Towards a Sociology of Information Technology
Part II: Theories at Work
Knowledge as Infrastructure
An Ecology of Distributed Practice Involving Knowledge Work
Actor Network Theory and Cultural Aspects of Interpretive Studies
Farewell to Constructivism: Technology and Context-Embedded Action
Framing IS Studies: Understanding the Context of IS Innovation
Part III: Substantive Issues and Applications
Bridging the Digital Divide: New Route to Development or New Form of Dependency
Re-Constructing Information Systems Evaluation
Reflections on Information Systems Strategizing
Socially Self-Destructing Systems
