The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies
Mansell, Robin Professor of New Media and the Internet at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Avgerou, Chrisanthi Professor of Information Systems at the Information Systems Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Quah, Danny Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Silverstone, Roger Formerly Professor of Media and Communications at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
Print publication date: 2009 (this edition) Print ISBN-13: 978-0-19-954879-8
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online: September 2009




8 The Economics of ICTs: Building Blocks and Implications
doi:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548798.003.0008

W. Edward Steinmueller
Abstract: Introduction – ICTs as general purpose technologies – Demand and diffusion – Concluding remarks

Keywords: block, demand, communication,

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W. Edward Steinmueller is Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy, Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU) at the University of Sussex, UK.
 
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Full Book Contents
1 The Challenges of ICTs
I The Knowledge Economy and ICTs
2 The ICT Paradigm
3 Markets and Policies in New Knowledge Economies
4 Globalization of the ICT Labour Force
5 Productivity and ICTs: A Review of the Evidence
6 Economic Policy Analysis and the Internet: Coming to Terms with a Telecommunications Anomaly
7 Internet Diffusion and the Geography of the Digital Divide in the United States
8 The Economics of ICTs: Building Blocks and Implications
II Organizational Dynamics, Strategy, Design, and ICTs
9 On Confronting Some Common Myths of is Strategy Discourse
10 Information Technology Sourcing: Fifteen Years of Learning
11 ICT, Organizations, and Networks
12 Information Technology and the Dynamics of Organizational Change
13 Making Sense of ICT, New Media, and Ethics
III Governance, Democracy, and ICTs
14 Electronic Networks, Power, and Democracy
15 E-democracy: The History and Future of an Idea
16 Communicative Entitlements and Democracy: The Future of The Digital Divide Debate
17 Governance and State Organization in the Digital Era
18 Privacy Protection and ICT: Issues, Instruments, and Concepts
19 Surveillance, Power, and Everyday Life
IV Culture, Community, and New Media Literacies
20 New Media Literacies: At The Intersection of Technical, Cultural, and Discursive Knowledges
21 Youthful Experts? A Critical Appraisal of Children's Emerging Internet Literacy
22 The Interrelations Between Online and Offline: Questions, Issues, and Implications
23 ICTs and political movements
24 ICTs and Communities in the Twenty-first Century: Challenges and Perspectives
25 ICTs and Inequality: Net Gains for Women?
Index
 
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