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The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies
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The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies

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

Abstract

The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies is about the many challenges presented by information and communication technologies (ICTs). The authors are principally researchers in anthropology, economics, philosophy, politics, and sociology. The book sets out an intellectual agenda that examines the implications of ICTs for individuals, organizations, democracy, and the economy. The production and consumption of ICTs are becoming deeply 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 at a micro level in our everyday lives. Explicitly interdisciplinary, and combining empirical research with theoretical work, this text is organised around four themes: the knowledge economy; organizational dynamics, strategy, and design; governance and democracy; culture, community and new media literacies.

Keywords: ICTs, individuals, organizations, democracy, the economy, production, consumption, governments, businesses, knowledge, culture, community, media

Bibliographic Information

Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Print Publication Date:
Feb 2009
ISBN:
9780199548798
Published to Oxford Handbooks Online:
Sep 2009
DOI:
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548798.001.0001

Editors

Chrisanthi Avgerou, editor
Chrisanthi Avgerou is Professor of Information Systems at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her main research interests concern the relationship of ICT to organizational change and the role of ICT 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, The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts, and The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies all published by Oxford University Press.

Robin Mansell, editor
Robin Mansell is Professor of New Media and the Internet at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Danny Quah, editor
Danny Quah is Professor of Economics at the Department of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Roger Silverstone, editor
Roger Silverstone was Professor of Media and Communications at the Department of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, until his death on 16 July 2006.


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