1st Edition

Human Services in the Network Society

Edited By Neil Ballantyne, Walter La Mendola Copyright 2012
136 Pages
by Routledge

132 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

The Internet and the many applications it supports continue to transform and expand the ways in which it is possible to relate, communicate, collaborate, and perform human service work. In this book, human service researchers and practitioners explore major opportunities and challenges to well being, social justice, and human service work that technology use in everyday life has exposed. Drawing... Read more

Chapter 1. Introduction: Human Services in the Network Society Neil Ballantyne, Glasgow School of Social Work, Glasgow, Scotland, UK and Walter LaMendola, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA

Chapter 2. Interoperability and the Future of Human Services Dick Schoech, School of Social Work, University of Texas at Arlington, Texas, USA

Chapter 3. Eternal Vigilance Inc.: The Satellite Tracking of Offenders in "Real Time" Mike Nellis, Glasgow School of Social Work, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Chapter 4. Ethical Considerations Around the Implementation of Telecare Technologies
Andrew Eccles, Glasgow School of Social Work, Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Chapter 5. The Initial Evaluation of the Scottish Telecare Development Program Sophie Beale, Paul Truman, Diana Sanderson and Jen Kruger, York Health Economics Consortium, University of York, York, UK

Chapter 6. Privacy, Social Network Sites, and Social Relations David J. Houghton and Adam N. Joinson, University of Bath, Bath, UK

Chapter 7. Corporate Parenting in the Network Society Neil Ballantyne, Glasgow School of Social Work, Glasgow, UK, Zachari Duncalf, Scottish Institute for Residential Child Care, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK and Ellen Daly, Institute for Research & Innovation in Social Services, Glasgow, UK

Chapter 8. Social Work and Social Presence in an Online World Walter LaMendola, Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, USA

Biography

Neil Ballantyne is a New Zealand based independent researcher and consultant and visiting senior research fellow at the School of Applied Social Sciences, University of Strathclyde, UK.

Walter LaMendola is a Professor and Chair of the Doctoral Program at the Graduate School of Social Work, University of Denver, USA.