03105nam a2200313 a 4500 ebr10443158 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110215r20092002enka sb 001 0 eng d 9780199248766 9780191593963 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)701718064 HM851 .W66 2009eb Woolgar, Steve. Virtual society? [electronic resource] : Technology, cyberbole, reality / Steve Woolgar. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. xviii, 349 p. : ill. Reprint. Includes bibliographical references and index. 1. Five rules of virtuality / Steve Woolgar -- 2. They came, they surfed, they went back to the beach : conceptualizing use and non-use of the Internet / Sally Wyatt, Graham Thomas and Tiziana Terranova -- 3. Visualization needs vision : the pre-paradigmatic character of virual reality / G.M. Peter Swann and Tim P. Watts -- 4. How socia is Internet communication? A reappraisal of bandwidth of anonymity effects / Susan E. Watt, Martin Lea, and Russell Spears -- 5. New public places for Internet access : networks for practice-based learning and social inclusion / Sonia Liff, Fred Steward, and Peter Watts -- 6. Allegories of creative destruction : technology and organization in narrative of the e-economy / David Knights ... [et al.] -- 7. Confronting electronic survelliance : desiring and resisting new technologies / Brian A. McGrail -- 8. Getting real about surveillance and privacy at work / David Mason ... [et al.] -- 9. Virtual society and the cultural practice of study / Charles Crook and Paul Light -- 10. The reality of virtual social support / Sarah Nettleton ... [et al.] -- 11. Realy and virtual connectivity : new media in London / Andreas Wittel, Celia Lury, and Scott Lash -- 12. Presence, absence, and accountability : e-mail and the mediation of organizational memory / Steven D. Brown and Geoffrey Lightfoot -- 13. Inside the bubble : communion, cognition, and deep play at the intersection of Wall Street and cyberspace / Melvin Pollner -- 14. The day-to-day work of standardization : a sceptial note on the reliance on IT in a retail bank / John A. Hughes, Mark Rouncefield, and Pete Tolmie -- 15. Cotton to computers : from industrial to information revolutions / Jon Agar, Sarah Green, and Penny Harvey -- 16. Mobile society? Technology, distance, and presence / Geoff Cooper ... [et al.] -- 17. Abstraction and decontextualization : an anthropological comment / Marilyn Strathern. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Information technology Social aspects. Internet Social aspects. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10443158 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 246381 246381