Society and technology : opportunities and challenges / edited by Ewa Lechman and Magdalena Popowska.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lechman, Ewa, editor.

Popowska, Magdalena, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in innovation, organization and technology

Routledge studies in innovation, organizations and technology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--Social aspects.

Information technology.

Social change.

Social networks.

Green technology.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 224 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm.

Edition:

First Edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Summary:

"This book offers broad evidence on how new information and communication technologies (ICT) impact social development and contribute to social welfare. Its aim is to show how new technological solutions may contribute to society's welfare by encouraging new 'socially responsible' initiatives and practices as the broad adoption of new technologies becomes an integral component of organizations, and of the overall economy. Society and Technology: Opportunities and Challenges is designed to provide deep insight into theoretical and empirical evidence on ICT as socially responsible technologies. More specifically, it puts special focus on examining the following: how channels of ICT impact on social progress, environmental sustainability and instability the role of ICT in creating social networks, with positive and negative consequences of networking how ICT encourages education, skills development, institutional development, etc the ethical aspects of technological progress, and technology management for social corporate responsibility. The book is written primarily for scholars and academic professionals from a wide variety of disciplines that are addressing issues of economic development and growth, social development, and the role of technology progress in broadly defined socio-economic progress. It is also an invaluable source of knowledge for graduate and postgraduate students, particularly within economic and social development, information and technology, worldwide studies, social policy or comparative economics"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. ICT and social development: conceptual considerations / Kai Mustakoski

2. I, Robot: between angel and evil / Magdalena Popowska

3. Next-generation networks as general-purpose technologies: the impact on economic development / Filippo Reganati

4. After access: the importance of social capital and Internet use for human development / Diego Alonso Aguilar Lluncor

5. The regional shaping of ICT: exploring the links between ICT research, innovation and diffusion / Margarita Billon

6. Forecasting business software piracy rates: a machine-learning approach / Harleen Kaur

7. ICT for education and health care systems: potentialities and discrepancies in low- and high-income countries / Nadia Selmi

8. Role of social media and digital skills in adoption of online shopping in selected EU countries / Valerija Botric

9. ICT as challenging driver for social transformations in Serbia / Lazar Zivkovic

10. The impact of ICT and digitalization on consumer purchase behaviour of Millennials as emerging economic and social force: the case of Serbia / Ivana Muller

11. Forecasting risks and challenges of digital innovations: towards a Socially Responsible Design agenda / Margin Sikorski

12. Internationalization of an educational software as a service (EduSaaS) company / Mikko Mantyneva

13. Evaluation of a company's image on social media using the Net Sentiment Rate / Anna Baj-Rogowska.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Society and technology

ISBN:

9780367232511

0367232510

OCLC:

1127929115