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Information and communication technologies in society : e-living in a digital Europe / edited by Ben Anderson ... [and others].
Van Pelt Library HM851.E85 I54 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology
- Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information technology--Social aspects--Europe.
- Information technology.
- Information society--Europe.
- Information society.
- Information technology--Social aspects.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- Contents:
- 2 Trends in ICTs / Yoel Raban 18
- 3 Digital divides and choices reconfiguring access: national and cross-national patterns of Internet diffusion and use / W.H. Dutton, A. Shepherd, C. Di Gennaro 31
- 4 The social impact of broadband Internet in the home / Ben Anderson, Yoel Raban 46
- 5 The mysterious east: pluses and minuses in the e-Europe equation / Maria Bakardjieva 62
- 6 Gender and ICTs / Tal Soffer, Yoel Raban 78
- 7 ICT use and the elderly: cohort, lifestage or just irrelevant? / Deborah Diduca, Caroline Partridge, Jeroen Heres 88
- 8 UK Children Go Online: a child-centred approach to the experience of using the Internet / Sonia Livingstone, Magdalena Bober 104
- 9 Web-use and Net-nerds: the impact of information technology in the home / Jonathan Gershuny 119
- 10 Telework transitions and the quality of life / Ben Anderson, Birgitte Yttri 136
- 11 Informal social capital and ICTs / Rich Ling 150
- 12 Social capital, quality of life and ICTs / Ben Anderson 163
- 13 Civic participation and ICTs / Jeroen Heres, Frank Thomas 175
- 14 ICTs and growth potential / Jochen Dehio, Rainer Graskamp 189
- 15 The relative gains from computer usage and skills: a gender perspective / Malcolm Brynin 198
- 16 The use of ICTs in the workplace: opening the black box / Bram Steijn, Kea Tijdens 208
- 17 What does telework tell us about teleworkers? / Leslie Haddon, Malcolm Brynin 222
- 18 Have Information and communication technologies changed the patterns of high-skilled migration? / Michael Rothgang, Christoph M. Schmidt 233
- 19 Electronic waste and dematerialisation / Alberto Pasquini, Lorenzo Vicario 249
- 20 Sustainable business in the digital society / Vidhya Alakeson, James Goodman 263
- 21 Conclusion: a slow start? / Jonathan Gershuny 274.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415383846
- 9780415383844
- OCLC:
- 123215594
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