Virtual Society?
Technology, Cyberbole, Reality
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 26 September 2002
- ISBN 9780199248766
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages368 pages
- Size 234x157x19 mm
- Weight 516 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 figures; 2 tables 0
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Short description:
This book investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). Are fundamental shifts already taking place in the way in which we behave, organize, and interact as a direct result of their implementation? Providing a comprehensive set of detailed empirical studies of the genesis and use of these new technologies, the book also presents some surprising counterintuitive results.
MoreLong description:
Almost all aspects of social, cultural, economic and political life stand to be affected by the new electronic technologies. Virtual Society? is one vision of the consequential impact of these technologies. But to what extent and in what ways are the Internet and other electronic technologies really changing our lives? To what extent are we moving to a 'virtual society'?
This collection provides a comprehensive set of detailed empirical studies of the genesis and use of these new technologies, ranging widely across application areas: from cyber-cafés to new media; email and organizational memory: to surveillance-capable technologies in the workplace; virtual reality to CCTV in high-rise housing; stock exchange addicts to student study networks. It offers a unique perspective - analytic scepticism - for making sense of some surprisingly counterintuitive results, and for developing a refreshingly critical view of many taken-for-granted assumptions about the impact of the Internet on social relations and institutions.
Each chapter presents a high quality exemplar of its own disciplinary perspective, addressed to a general social science audience. The diversity of disciplinary perspectives is brought to bear in a central message laid out in the opening discussion of the 'Five Rules of Virtuality', that with due reflexive caution and ironic sensitivity, general messages can be drawn from the observations of particular substantive contexts. In particular, claims that we are moving to a 'virtual society' need to be tempered by a reassessment of connections between what counts as 'real' and 'virtual'.
This book will appeal to students and researchers in a very wide range of disciplines, both within and beyond the social sciences and management, and to all practitioners struggling with the realities of the new virtual technologies
... intelligent, well-grounded and carefully drawn insights into the take up and use of ICTs ... intriguing case studies ... Throughout, Woolgar's book provides concrete sociological evidence to justify the question mark in the title.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Five Rules of Virtuality
They Came, They Surfed, They Went Back to the Beach: Conceptualizing Use and Non-use of the Internet
Visualization Needs Vision: The Pre-paradigmatic Character of Virtual Reality
How Social is Internet Communication? A Reappraisal of Bandwidth and Anonymity Effects
New Public Places for Internet Access: Networks for Practice-Based Learning and Social Inclusion
Allegories of Creative Destruction: Technology and Organization in Narratives of the e-Economy
Confronting Electronic Surveillance: Desiring and Resisting New Technologies
Getting Real about Surveillance and Privacy at Work
Virtual Society and the Cultural Practice of Study
The Reality of Virtual Social Support
Real and Virtual Connectivity: New Media in London
Presence, Absence, and Accountability: Email and the Mediation of Organizational Memory
Inside the Bubble: Communion, Cognition, and Deep Play at the Intersection of Wall Street and Cyberspace
The Day-to-Day Work of Standardization: A Sceptical Note on the Reliance on IT in a Retail Bank
Cotton to Computers: From Industrial to Information Revolutions
Mobile Society? Technology, Distance, and Presence
Abstraction and Decontextualization: An Anthropological Comment
