Critical Connections

Critical Connections
Author: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment
Publisher:
Total Pages: 414
Release: 1990
Genre: Communication
ISBN:

Asleep at the Switch?

Asleep at the Switch?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Government Information, Justice, and Agriculture Subcommittee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 528
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN:

Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics

Understanding and Communicating Social Informatics
Author: Rob Kling
Publisher: Information Today, Inc.
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2005
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781573872287

Here is a sustained investigation into the human contexts of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), covering both research and theory in this emerging field. Authors Kling, Rosenbaum, and Sawyer demonstrate that the design, adoption, and use of ICTs are deeply connected to people's actions as well as to the environments in which they are used. In Chapters One and Two, they define Social Informatics and offer a pragmatic overview of the discipline. In Chapters Three and Four, they articulate its fundamental ideas for specific audiences and present important research findings about the personal, social, and organizational consequences of ICT design and use. Chapter Five covers Social Informatics education; Chapter Six discusses ways to communicate Social Informatics to professional and research communities; and Chapter Seven provides a summary and look to the future.

Communication Revolution

Communication Revolution
Author: Robert Waterman McChesney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

In this sharply argued book, McChesney explains why we are in the midst of a communication revolution which is at the centre of 21st century life. Yet this profound juncture is not well understood, in part because media criticism and scholarship haven't been up to the task. McChesney's concise history of media studies shows how communication scholarship has grown increasingly irrelevant in recent years, even as the media became a decisive issue of these times. The revolution in communication calls for a transformation in the way we think about media.