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Title

Computerization movements and technology diffusion : from mainframes to ubiquitous computing / edited by Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer.

Publication

Medford, N.J. : Information Today, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Elliott, Margaret S., 1948-
• Kraemer, Kenneth L.

Description

xix, 581 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

" "Computerization movement" (CM) refers to a special kind of social and technological movement that promotes the adoption of computing within organizations and society. ... Through theoretical analyses, systematic empirical studies, field-based studies, and case studies of specific technologies, the book shows CMs to be driven by Utopian visions of technology that become part of the "ether" within society. The empirical studies presented here show the need for designers, users, and the media to be aware that CM rhetoric can propose grand visions that never become part of a reality and reinforce the need for critical and scholarly review of promising new technologies."--Back cover.

Series Statement

ASIS&T monograph series

Uniform Title

ASIST monograph series.

Subject

• Electronic data processing
• Technological innovations
• Technology transfer > United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Pt. I. Introduction -- 1. Computerization movements and the diffusion of technological innovations / Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer -- 2. Reprints of seminal research papers on computerization movements -- Paper 1. Computerization movements and the mobilization of support for computerization / Rob Kling and Suzanne Iacono -- Paper 2. Computerization movements : the rise of the Internet and distant forms of work / Suzanne Iacono and Rob Kling -- Pt. II. Productivity -- 3. The computerization movement in the U.S. home mortgage industry : automated underwriting from 1980 to 2004 / M. Lynne Markus ... [et al.] -- 4. Visions of the next big thing : computerization movements and the mobilization of support for new technologies / Jonathan P. Allen -- 5. Framing the photographs : understanding digital photography as a computerization movement / Eric T. Meyer -- Pt. III. Democratization --^
• 6. From the computerization movement to computerization : communication networks in a high-tech organization / Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman -- 7. Internetworking in the small / John M. Carroll -- 8. Online communities : infrastructure, relational cohesion, and sustainability / Mary J. Culnan -- Pt. IV. Death of distance -- 9. Virtual teams : high-tech rhetoric and low-tech experience / Sara Kiesler ... [et al.] -- 10. Large-scale distributed collaboration : tension in a new interaction order / Gloria Mark -- 11. Examining the proliferation of intranets / Roberta Lamb and Mark Poster -- Pt. V. Freedom and information rights -- 12. Information/communication rights as a new environmentalism? : core environmental concepts for linking rights-oriented computerization movements / Andrew Clement and Christie Hurrell -- 13. Examining the success of computerization movements in the ubiquitous computing era : free and open source software movements / Margaret S. Elliott --^
• z14. Emerging patterns of intersection and segmentation when computerization movements interact / Walt Scacchi -- 15. Seeking reliability in freedom : the case of F/OSS / Hamid R. Ekbia and Les Gasser -- 16. Movement ideology vs. user pragmatism in the organizational adoption of open source software / Jason Dedrick and Joel West -- Pt. VI. Ubiquitous computing -- 17. The professional's everyday struggle with ubiquitous computing / Carsten Sørensen and David Gibson -- 18. Politics of design : next-generation computational environments / Mark S. Ackerman -- 19. Social movements shaping the Internet : the outcome of an ecology of games / William Dutton -- Pt. VII. Conclusion -- 20. Comparative perspective on computerization movements : implications for ubiquitous computing / Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer.

ISBN

9781573873116

LCCN

^^2007050030

OCLC

166391434

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library