The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change

The Dynamics of Technology for Social Change
Author: Jonathan Peizer
Publisher: iUniverse
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2005-12-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 059581669X

" -Chris Coward, Director, Center for Internet Studies, University of Washington 'Peizer shares his considerable global experience and ICT expertise in a highly readable, illuminating book. A must read!" - Stefaan Verhulst, Chief of Research, Markle Foundation.

Technological Change: Its Impact on Man and Society

Technological Change: Its Impact on Man and Society
Author: Emmanuel G. Mesthene
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass : Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1970
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Social research study of the impact of technological change and Innovation on social change in the USA. Annotated bibliography pp. 96 to 124 and references.

Technological Growth and Social Change

Technological Growth and Social Change
Author: Stanley A. Hetzler
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1998
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415176927

First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Digital Technology and Organizational Change

Digital Technology and Organizational Change
Author: Cecilia Rossignoli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-10-03
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3319620517

This book includes a selection of the best research papers presented at the annual conference of the Italian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS), which took place in Verona, Italy in October 2016. Tracing various aspects of the ongoing phenomenon of evolution towards a global society, and consequently the ever-innovating digital world, it first discusses emerging technologies and the new practices in the information-systems world. It then examines the new businesses and ongoing business transformations. Lastly, it considers the economic and societal changes brought about by access to and exploitation of socio-technical networks. The plurality of views offered makes the book particularly relevant for users, companies, scientists and governments.

The Social Labs Revolution

The Social Labs Revolution
Author: Zaid Hassan
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2014-02-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1626560757

Current responses to our most pressing societal challenges—from poverty to ethnic conflict to climate change—are not working. These problems are incredibly dynamic and complex, involving an ever-shifting array of factors, actors, and circumstances. They demand a highly fluid and adaptive approach, yet we address them by devising fixed, long-term plans. Social labs, says Zaid Hassan, are a dramatically more effective response. Social labs bring together a diverse a group of stakeholders—not to create yet another five-year plan but to develop a portfolio of prototype solutions, test those solutions in the real world, use the data to further refine them, and test them again. Hassan builds on a decade of experience—as well as drawing from cutting-edge research in complexity science, networking theory, and sociology—to explain the core principles and daily functioning of social labs, using examples of pioneering labs from around the world. He offers a new generation of problem solvers an effective, practical, and exciting new vision and guide.

The Systems Work of Social Change

The Systems Work of Social Change
Author: Cynthia Rayner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2021-10-12
Genre: Social change
ISBN: 0198857454

The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.