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The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology : Innovation, Actors, and Contexts, Paperback / softback Book

The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology : Innovation, Actors, and Contexts Paperback / softback

Edited by Chrisanthi (, Professor of Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Sc Avgerou, Claudio (, Professor of Information Systems, Convenor of the Department of Information Syst Ciborra

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This book is a useful text for advanced students of MIS and ICT courses, and for those studying ICT in related areas: Management and Organization Studies, Cultural Studies, and Technology and Innovation. As ICTs permeate every sphere of society - business, education, leisure, government, etc. - it is important to reflect the character and complexity of the interaction between people and computers, between society and technology.

For example, the user may represent a much broader set of actors than 'the user' conventionally found in many texts: the operator, the customer, the citizen, the gendered individual, the entrepreneur, the 'poor', the student.

Each actor uses ICT in different ways. This book examines these issues, deploying a number of methods such as Actor Network Theory, Socio-Technical Systems, and phenomenological approaches.

Management concerns about strategy and productivity are covered together with issues of power, politics, and globalization.

Topics range from long-standing themes in the study of IT in organizations such as implementation, strategy, and evaluation, to general analysis of IT as socio-economic changeA distinguished group of contributors, including Bruno Latour, Saskia Sassen, Robert Galliers, Frank Land, Ian Angel, and Richard Boland, offer the reader a rich set of perspectives and ideas on the relationship between ICT and society, organizational knowledge and innovation.

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