| Description |
282 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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Sociological review monograph ; 42 |
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Sociological review monograph series |
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Sociological review monograph.
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Sociological review monograph ; 42
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| Contents |
Introduction / Susan Leigh Star -- From practice to culture on Usenet / Nancy K. Baym -- Changing documents/documenting changes: using computers for collaborative writing over distance / Eevi E. Beck -- Cyberpunks in cyberspace: The politics of subjectivity in the computer age / Paul N. Edwards -- Connecting cultures: Balinese character and the computer / Dianne DiPaola Hagaman -- Information systems strategy, a cultural borderland, some monstrous behaviour / Mike Hales -- Making space: a comparison of mathematical work in school and professional design practices / Rogers Hall and Reed Stevens -- Contextualization, cognitive flexibility, and hypertext: The convergence of interpretive theory, cognitive psychology, and advanced information technologies / Robert Alun Jones and Rand J. Spiro -- Constructing easiness - historical perspectives on work, computerization, and women / Randi Markussen |
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'Pulling down' books vs. 'pulling up' files: textual databanks and the changing culture of classical scholarship / Karen Ruhleder -- The visual culture of engineers / Kathryn Henderson -- Cross-classroom collaboration in global learning circles / Margaret Riel -- Sex and death among the disembodied: VR, cyberspace, and the nature of academic discourse / Allucquere Rosanne Stone |
| Analysis |
Society Effects of Information technology |
| Notes |
ANALYTIC |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [256]-275) and index |
| Notes |
Sociological review monograph no:42 0081-1769 |
| Subject |
Communication -- Social aspects.
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Computer networks -- Social aspects.
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Cyberspace -- Social aspects.
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Electronic mail systems -- Social aspects.
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Interactive computer systems.
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| Author |
Star, Susan Leigh, 1954-2010.
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| LC no. |
95019807 |
| ISBN |
0631192824 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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