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Everyday Innovators
Everyday Innovators explores the active role of people, collectively and individually, in shaping the use of information and communication technologies. It examines issues around acquiring and using that knowledge of users, how we should conceptualise the role of users and understand the forms and limitations of their participation. To what extent should we think of users as being innovative and creative? To what extent is this routine or exceptional, confined to particular group of users or part of many people’s experience of technologies? Where does the nature of the ICT or the particularities of its design impose constraints on the active role that users can play in their interaction with devices and services? Where do the horizons and orientations of the users influence or limit what they want and expect of their ICTs and how they use them? This book enables a cross-fertilisation of perspectives from different disciplines and aims to provide new insights into the role of users, drawing out both applied and theoretical implications
Hacking Europe
Hacking Europe traces the user practices of chopping games in Warsaw, hacking software in Athens, creating chaos in Hamburg, producing demos in Turku, and partying with computing in Zagreb and Amsterdam. Focusing on several European countries at the end of the Cold War, the book shows the digital development was not an exclusively American affair. Local hacker communities appropriated the computer and forged new cultures around it like the hackers in Yugoslavia, Poland and Finland, who showed off their tricks and creating distinct “demoscenes.” Together the essays reflect a diverse palette of cultural practices by which European users domesticated computer technologies. Each chapter explores the mediating actors instrumental in introducing and spreading the cultures of computing around Europe. More generally, the “ludological” element--the role of mischief, humor, and play--discussed here as crucial for analysis of hacker culture, opens new vistas for the study of the history of technology.
Mobile Technologies
Mobile Technologies charts the social, cultural, creative, and design aspects of mobiles as they are being incorporated into and changing the nature of media. It provides rigorous and timely analysis of the new area of mobile media and will be of interest to scholars, policy makers, industry, and general readers.
Email, SMS, MMS
Are email and SMS forms of writing or speech? This question cannot be answered easily because their registers are hybrid; they make use of both orality and literacy. This book offers an accurate placement of emails and text messages along the written/spoken continuum. Emails and text messages are also compared to letters and phone calls while a closer comparison of SMS and telegrams shows how far text messaging can be regarded as a renaissance of telegrams. Attention is further paid to multimedia messaging and questions concerning the proportion of image to text, picture categories as well as MMS dialogues are approached. The book finally comments on linguistic changes and deals with the German language community's concern with regard to the increasing use of Anglicisms.
The Contemporary Goffman
The Contemporary Goffman highlights the continued relevance of Goffman to sociology and related disciplines – to theoretical discussions as well as to substantive empirical research – through contributions dealing with a variety of topics and themes.
Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life
How do cell phones change society? How do children use computers? How can we manage relationships via text messages? The internet, television, email and other new forms of information technology are changing at a rapid pace with potentially profound but also subtle influences on social life. This book offers a succinct introduction to both the experience and implications of these information and communication technologies (ICTs) in everyday life. Drawing on a wide variety of studies from different countries, the author considers the potential, or feared, social consequences of ICTs. Throughout, he analyzes what factors are shaping the debates surrounding information and communication technologies. The outcome is a cutting-edge book that offers a fresh approach to understanding ICTs and everyday life.
The Routledge Companion to Disability and Media
An authoritative and indispensable guide to disability and media, this thoughtfully curated collection features varied and provocative contributions from distinguished scholars globally, alongside next-generation research leaders. Disability and media has emerged as a dynamic and exciting area of contemporary culture and social life. Media–– especially digital technology––play a vital role in disability transformations, with widespread implications for global societies and how we understand communications. This book addresses this development, from representation and audience through technologies, innovations and challenges of the field. Through the varied and global perspectives of ...
Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,800+ serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers.
Das neue Netz. Merkmale, Praktiken und Folgen des Web 2.0
Im »Web 2.0« sinken die Hürden für Internetnutzer, selbst aktiv zu werden, eigene Interessen und Erlebnisse publik zu machen, Freundschaften und Kontakte zu pflegen oder Informationen und Wissen mit anderen zu teilen. Die Konsequenzen für etablierte Medien und politische, wirtschaftliche oder zivilgesellschaftliche Organisationen zeichnen sich erst langsam ab, genauso wie die Auswirkungen auf soziale Beziehungen oder unser Verständnis von Privatsphäre. Der Autor untersucht diese Veränderungen aus einer kommunikationssoziologischen Perspektive. Er analysiert Konzeption, Stellenwert sowie vorherrschende Praktiken des Web 2.0 und zeigt, worin das tatsächlich Neue am »neuen Netz« besteht. Die 2. Auflage berücksichtigt aktuelle Daten zur Nutzung und Verbreitung sowie zahlreiche Studien und Diskussionen der vergangenen Jahre.
Information und Gesellschaft
Am 1. Januar 2007 wurde an der Alpen-Adria-Universität zu Klagenfurt die Fakultät für Technische Wissenschaften ins Leben gerufen. Damit wurde einem sozialhistorischen Trend Rechnung getragen, der un- kehrbar ist: Die Gesellschaft der Zukunft wird eine technologisch gepr- te sein. „Wenn man den Maßstab für die Bedeutung der einzelnen Teil- biete der menschlichen Kultur in erster Linie ihrer realen Wirksamkeit entnimmt,“ so hatte Ernst Cassirer in seinem berühmten Aufsatz „Form und Technik“ gesagt, „wenn man den Wert dieser Gebiete nach der G- ße ihrer unmittelbaren Leistung bestimmt, so ist kaum ein Zweifel daran erlaubt, dass, mit diesem Maße gemessen, die Technik im Aufba...
