From the Publisher: Information and Communication Technologies-Visions and Realities
illuminates the social and economic implications of advances in information and …

Communication Technology and Social Change is a distinctive collection that provides
current theoretical, empirical, and legal analyses for a broader understanding of the dynamic …

How is society being reshaped by the continued diffusion and increasing centrality of the
Internet in everyday life and work? Society and the Internet provides key readings for …

In Media Access: Social and Psychological Dimensions of New Technology Use, editors Erik
P. Bucy and John E. Newhagen present the latest work, theoretical explorations, and …

This volume explores how a number of developing countries--including India, Malaysia,
Columbia, Brazil, and Saudi Arabia--are responding to the pressures of the information …

Our daily lives have become so immersed in digital Information and Communications
Technology that we rarely stop to think about it. We know much about the benefits brought …

The study of digital and networked technologies is one of the fastest growing fields
ofresearch in the social sciences. New research on technology is adding to the literature of …

What does it mean to live and work inside the information and communication technology
revolution? The nature and significance of newly emerging patterns of social and technical …

This book provides an overview of debates about whether we are entering into a phase of
social existence without precedent-the'information society'. Intended as a bridge between …

A phrase with great urgency a few years ago,“the digital divide” now is on the sidelines. As
the federal government renewed its commitment to marketplace solutions in …