Authors: Sam Han.
Hardcover, 186 pages
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication Date: 2007-12-28


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    This is an introductory survey of what the author calls the technomedia, the generation of communication technologies after television, cell phones and the first wave of the Internet. Beginning with a history of media, the book explores the nature and effects of technomedia like the blogosphere, Blackberries and related technologies. Because they are transforming the relations of their users to the social environment, the topic is fast becoming an important focus of modern social theory....

Authors: Charles Edquist.
Unknown Binding, 88 pages
Publisher: Research Policy Program, University of Lund
Publication Date: 1978

Authors: Jeff Watkins.
Hardcover, 257 pages
Publisher: Routledge
Publication Date: 1998-05-29
Edition: 1

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    This wide-ranging study presents in-depth research into the effect of new information technologies on organizational structure, assesses their progress towards transformation and describes the changes they are making to long-established business processes, roles, cultures and working practices....

Authors: Michael Rice.
Unknown Binding, 7 pages
Publisher: Institute for Information Studies
Publication Date: 1986

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Hardcover, 404 pages
Publisher: Ablex Publishing
Publication Date: 2000-04-13


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    Culture and Technology in the New Europe presents the insights of an international group of academic researchers and media practitioners who examine the impact of technology on East Central Europe, South-Eastern Europe, the Newly Independent States and the Russian Federation. Drawing from the expertise of authors from and working in the region, the book addresses concerns that the New Europe faces at the eve of the Third Millennium and a decade after the fall of communist rule. Such concerns include access to information and communication technology and the culturally-specific discourses articulated through media and technology. While the book focuses on information and communication reforms, and the development of a participatory democracy are examined. The book is distinguished by diverse studies ranging from the problems of "Cyber Hate" from and about the New Europe, to online activism in war-torn Kosovo, Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia, to how digital media art articulates new cultural and creative freedoms once silenced by the Soviet regime. Finally, the book looks to the future of media, technology and communication in the New Europe, particularly the gaps between post-socialist nations and those more technologically advantaged, and how these gaps can be narrowed or eradicated in the Third Millennium....

Authors: Charles W. Wessner.
Digital, 3 pages
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Publication Date: 2007-09-22


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    This digital document is an article from Issues in Science and Technology, published by Thomson Gale on September 22, 2007. The length of the article is 720 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: The global tour of innovation policy: innovation does not take place in a laboratory.(Global Innovation)
Author: Charles W. Wessner
Publication: Issues in Science and Technology (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 22, 2007
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 24 Issue: 1 Page: 43(2)

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Authors: Geoffrey James.
Kindle Edition, pages
Publisher: Personal Selling Power
Publication Date: 2008-11-04
Edition: 10

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    Readers of this newsletter benefit from an insider's view of the constantly evolving world of CRM - delivered in a language that's easy to understand. Every month they receive articles on how to exploit technology so their team can focus on what they do best - creating, enhancing and maintaining customer relationships. They come here for answers - you can provide them....

Authors: Leslie Ann Brownrigg.
Unknown Binding, pages
Publisher: The Cooperative
Publication Date: 1979

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Hardcover, 232 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Publication Date: 1990-02-22


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    The computer and other new communication technologies have changed the way we live. However every technological innovation carries with it the potential to liberate or exclude various parts of our society, and the current information age seems to fragment and privatize access to the knowledge provided by the new technologies. Who is affected by the "information gap" and what is the role of communication technology in widening or closing it? These vital, complex questions are the subject of this special issue of the Journal of Communication--the noted computer-age forum for debate and scientific understanding. The Information Gap brings together articles, reports, and proposals from a broad variety of cross-disciplinary sources. The result is a comprehensive and enlightening overview that probes current trends in the social distribution of the new technologies, explores the obstacles to information equality, and shows how some social groups have embraced today's technological promise more than others. This special edition also provides commentary on entrenched institutional barriers that may contribute to the persistence of the information gap. This report will be of value to all readers interested in the impact of the computer age on today's society and the world of the future....

Authors: Thomas W. Valente.
Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Hampton Pr
Publication Date: 1995-01


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    This text presents a key to understanding how ideas, products and opinions "take off" and spread throughout society - referred to as the diffusion of innovation - and provides a means to estimate how fast or slow that spread occurs. The diffusion of innovations occurs among individuals in a social system, and the pattern of communications among these individuals is a social network. The network determines how quickly innovations diffuse and the timing of each individual's adoption. The book thus analyses how social networks structure the diffusion of innovation. Chapter 1 reviews the diffusion of innovation theory, network analysis, and the datasets used as examples. Chapter 2 reviews prior research conducted on threshold and critical mass models. Chapter 3 presents relational network models of diffusion which posit that individuals adopt innovations based on their direct relations with others in their social system, and the next chapter provides structural network models of diffusion which posit that individuals adopt innovations based on their position in the social system, regardless of direct ties to specific others. Threshold and critical mass models of diffusion are presented in chapters 5 and 6. Chapter 7 develops a general threshold model of adoption based on social networks. This book is addressed to researchers, policymakers and students interested in diffusion of innovation or network analysis. It is also meant for those interested in studying the process of social change as represented by a diffusion network paradigm. Finally, individuals interested in developing, evaluating or understanding communication campaigns and media effects can use these concepts to improve their work....