The production and consumption of Information and Communication Technologies (or ICTs) have become embedded within our societies. The influence and implications of this have an …
This article explores the social impact of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). It argues that they are best understood, not as heralding a substantially new …
From the Publisher: Information and Communication Technologies-Visions and Realities illuminates the social and economic implications of advances in information and …
M Castells - UNESCO's World Social Science Report, 1999 - glotta.ntua.gr
This report examines the social implications of new information and communication technologies in their interaction with social and economic structures, and cultural and …
The emergence of the new information and communications technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet are said to herald the coming of the 'information society': a new social and economic …
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 …
Social Dimensions of Information Technology: Issues for the New Millennium is an anthology that brings together multiple viewpoints on the social dimensions of the …
R Silverstone - Aslib Proceedings, 1993 - emerald.com
This paper provides an opportunity to reflect on some of the questions that have been raised both in empirical work on information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the …
First published in 1997. Information processing is crucial to social life and an important element of control. Innovations in information processing have the potential to dramatically …