1st Edition
New Technologies at Work People, Screens and Social Virtuality
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
262 Pages
by
Routledge
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Information and communication technologies have completely revolutionized our working practices. Career patterns, professional identities, speed of communication, time management, and mobility have been irrevocably changed in an amazingly short period. Drawing on worldwide case studies, this fascinating book explores these transformations and looks to what developments are in store for us in the... Read more
Acknowledgements, Notes on Contributors, Introduction: From People of the Book to People of the Screen, 1. Living with New (Ideals of) Technology, 2. The Computer as a Focus of Inattention: Five Scenarios concerning Hospital Porters, 3. Digital Ditches: Working in the Virtual Grass Roots, 4. Real-time, Real-place Market: Transnational Connections and Disconnections in Financial Markets, 5. Mobile Workplacing: Office Design, Space and Technology, 6. Claiming the Future: Speed, Business Rhetoric and Computer Practice, 7. Networking as a Form of Life: The Transnational Movement of Internet Pioneers, 8. Mainstream Rebels: Informalization and Regulation in a Virtual World, 9. Steps on Screen: Technoscapes, Visualization and Globalization in Dance, 10. Screening the Classroom: Students, Teachers and Computers in an Urban American School, 11. Open-Source Software Development as Gift Culture: Work and Identity Formation in an Internet Community, Index
Biography
Christina Garsten is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University. Helena Wulff is Senior Lecturer at Stockholm University.
