This paper discusses the potential implications of a risk society on identities due to
alterations in work practices. The promise of 'flexibility'via at‐home telework entails a …

Ever since the anti-globalisation protests in Seattle in 1999 the adoption of new information
and communications technologies (ICTs) by social movement activists has offered the …

Web Theory is a comprehensive and critical introduction to the theories of the internet and
the world wide web. Robert Burnett and P. David Marshall examine the key debates which …

This research explores female teleworkers' domestic and work experiences in their day‐to‐
day lives. We draw on focus groups and interviews carried out in Spain and use the …

I first came across the internet when I saw the famous web-cam set up by researchers in the
Cambridge University computing department, which they used to keep an eye on the coffee …

Few would disagree with Roger Silverstone that the near global exposure of almost all
individuals to various forms of mass media content invisibly informs and constrains much …

This chapter represents a narrative,'women and the Internet', as a women and technology
origin story with a fixed beginning, a contested centre and an open ending. This chapter …

By reconsidering the theme of isolation in the philosophy of technology, and by drawing
upon recent developments in social ontology, Lawson provides an account of technology …

Many would claim that the development of electronic commerce is reshaping almost all
industries, even to the extent that we are undergoing a paradigm shift. This enthusiasm …

This chapter introduces and discusses domestication theory—essentially about giving
technology a place in everyday life—and its relevance and importance to information …