Virtual society? : Technology, cyberbole, reality / / Steve Woolgar.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:xviii, 349 p. :; ill.
Notes:Reprint.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Five rules of virtuality / Steve Woolgar
  • 2. They came, they surfed, they went back to the beach : conceptualizing use and non-use of the Internet / Sally Wyatt, Graham Thomas and Tiziana Terranova
  • 3. Visualization needs vision : the pre-paradigmatic character of virual reality / G.M. Peter Swann and Tim P. Watts
  • 4. How socia is Internet communication? A reappraisal of bandwidth of anonymity effects / Susan E. Watt, Martin Lea, and Russell Spears
  • 5. New public places for Internet access : networks for practice-based learning and social inclusion / Sonia Liff, Fred Steward, and Peter Watts
  • 6. Allegories of creative destruction : technology and organization in narrative of the e-economy / David Knights ... [et al.]
  • 7. Confronting electronic survelliance : desiring and resisting new technologies / Brian A. McGrail
  • 8. Getting real about surveillance and privacy at work / David Mason ... [et al.]
  • 9. Virtual society and the cultural practice of study / Charles Crook and Paul Light
  • 10. The reality of virtual social support / Sarah Nettleton ... [et al.]
  • 11. Realy and virtual connectivity : new media in London / Andreas Wittel, Celia Lury, and Scott Lash
  • 12. Presence, absence, and accountability : e-mail and the mediation of organizational memory / Steven D. Brown and Geoffrey Lightfoot
  • 13. Inside the bubble : communion, cognition, and deep play at the intersection of Wall Street and cyberspace / Melvin Pollner
  • 14. The day-to-day work of standardization : a sceptial note on the reliance on IT in a retail bank / John A. Hughes, Mark Rouncefield, and Pete Tolmie
  • 15. Cotton to computers : from industrial to information revolutions / Jon Agar, Sarah Green, and Penny Harvey
  • 16. Mobile society? Technology, distance, and presence / Geoff Cooper ... [et al.]
  • 17. Abstraction and decontextualization : an anthropological comment / Marilyn Strathern.