By Geoff Walsham
ISBN-10: 0471877247
ISBN-13: 9780471877240
Info expertise has develop into an integral part of latest society, permitting a lot quicker and extra common verbal exchange, now not least in the course of the development of the net. even though, many matters considering the human features of using IT stay complex regardless of technological advances. An more desirable skill to gather and strategy facts, or to speak electronically throughout time and house, doesn't inevitably result in more advantageous human verbal exchange and motion.
This booklet explores the social elements of computerization, utilizing quite a lot of special case stories, analysed from numerous conceptual viewpoints. yet another virtue of the booklet is that it attracts epirical fabric from accross the realm as an entire, together with non-Western international locations. it really is argued that we must always be utilizing IT to help an international during which range and distinction are revered.
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He believes, however, that it could be built, not in contradiction, but complementary to national, regional and local identities. It would be based on a blueprint of social values and institutional goals that appeal to the majority of citizens across the continent as a whole. Castells ends Volume 3, and the work as a whole, with an appeal for conscious, purposive social action, supported by information, in order to address the many problems and challenges identified in the books. If people are informed, active and communicate throughout the world; if business assumes its social responsibility; ...
I will return to such issues in later chapters when examining the way in which employees in business organizations sometimes feel obliged to ‘accept’ new computer systems as part of their working life, even though they may have serious reservations about the value of such systems. They feel compelled to restrain any dissent due to their dependency on the organization for job security, for example. Two further observations on the earlier work of both Giddens and Beck are of direct relevance to the topic of this book.
This approach stems from my view that the process of techno-economic globalization shaping our world is being challenged, and will eventually be transformed, from a multiplicity of sources, according to different cultures, histories and geographies ... I would like also ... to break the ethnocentric approach still dominating much social science at the very moment when our societies have become globally interconnected and culturally intertwined (p. 3). The challenges to techno-economic globalization come from people’s search for communal or collective identity, according to Castells.