New technologies at work
Subtitle: people, screens, and social virtuality
By: edited by Christina Garsten and Helena Wulff.
Contributors: Garsten, Christina.; Wulff, Helena.
Publisher: Berg
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Employees -- Effect of technological innovations on -- United States -- Case studies; Electronic data processing personnel -- Supply and demand -- United States; Internet -- Economic aspects -- United States; Information technology -- Economic aspects -- United States; Telecommuting -- United States; Information society -- United States
Genres: Case studies.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Living with new (ideals) of technology / Daniel Miller; title: The computer as a focus of inattention: five scenarios concerning hospital porters / Nigel Rapport; title: Digital ditches: working in the virtual grass roots / Sarah Green; title: Real-time, real-place market: transnational connections and disconnections in financial markets / Anna Hasselstrm; title: Mobile workplacing: office design, space and technology / Heinrich Schwarz; title: Claiming the future: speed, business rhetoric and computer practice / Robert Willim; title: Networking as a form of life: the transnational movement of Internet pioneers / Paula Uimonen; title: Mainstream rebels: informalization and regulation in a virtual world /  Christina Garsten and David Lerdell; title: Steps on screen: technoscapes, visualization and globalization in dance / Helena Wulff; title: Screening the classroom: students, teachers and computers in an urban American school / William Washabaugh, Catherine Washabaugh, Mary Roffers and Kira Kaufmann; title: Open-source software development as gift culture: work and identity formation in an Internet community / Magnus Bergquist.