Innovative ICT-enabled services and social inclusion
By: edited by Jyoti Choudrie, Panayiota Tsatsou and Sherah Kurnia
Edition: First edition.
Series: Routledge Studies in Technology, Work and Organizations; Routledge studies in technology, work and organizations
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781315677316
Subjects: Information technology; Social aspects; Social interaction; Technologie de l'information; Aspect social; Interaction sociale; PSYCHOLOGY; Social Psychology
Description: Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services is a cutting-edge research book written for researchers, students, academics, technology experts, activists and policy makers. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning innovative ICT-enabled digital services, their usability and their consequent role in social inclusion, It includes the impacts of the use of ICT-enabled digital services on individuals, organisations, governments and society, and offers a theoretically informed and empirically rich account of the socio-technical, management and policy aspects of social inclusion and innovative ICT-enabled digital services.??This publication offers insights from the perspectives of Information Systems, Media and Communications, Management and Social Policy, drawing on research from these disciplines to inform readers on diverse aspects of social inclusion and usability of innovative ICT-enabled digital services. The originality of this book lies in the combination of socio-technical, management and policy perspectives offered by the contributors, and integrated by the editors, as well as in the interdisciplinary and both theoretically framed and empirically rich features of the various chapters of the book. While providing a timely account of existing evidence and debates in the field of social inclusion and technology usability, this book will also offer some original insights into what practitioners, experts and researchers are to expect in the near future to be the emerging issues and agendas concerning the role of technology usability in social inclusion and the emerging forms and attributes of the latter.??Through a collection of high quality, peer reviewed papers; Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services will enhance knowledge of social inclusion and usability of innovative ICT-enabled digital services and applications at a diverse level.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Cover; title: Title; title: Copyright; title: Contents; title: List of Figures; title: List of Tables; title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Introduction; title: Part I Examining the Theoretical Foundations of Social Inclusion and ICT-Enabled Services; title: 1 Social Inclusion and ICTs: A Literature Review Through the Lens of the Capability Approach; title: 2 Connectivity: A Socio-technical Construct to Examine ICT-Enabled Service; title: 3 Re-conceptualizing Social Inclusion in the Context of 21st-Century Smart Cities; title: 4 Enhancing Social Inclusion Through Optimal Community Participation Levels in ICT4D ProjectsPart II ICT-Enabled Services of Value to Society and Organizations; title: 5 Understanding the Impact of Politication Structure, Governance, and Public Policy on E-Government; title: 6 ICT-Enabled E-Entertainment Services in U.S. Counties: Socio-economic Determinants and Geographic Patterns; title: 7 E-Health as an Enabler of Social Inclusion; title: 8 Challenging the Cost of Higher Education With the Assistance of Digital Tools: Case Studies of Protest Activity in Canada and the United States; title: 9 Telework Impact on Productivity and Well-Being: An Australian Study10 Supporting Regional Food Supply Chains With an E-Commerce Application; title: Part III Adoption, Usage, and Management Aspects Surrounding Social Inclusion and Usability of ICT-Enabled Services; title: 11 Digital Divides, Usability, and Social Inclusion: Evidence From the Field of E-Services in the United Kingdom; title: 12 Mobility of Work: Usability of Digital Infrastructures and Technological Divide; title: 13 Overcoming Obstacles to Activism With ICTs: An Analysis of MoveOn.Org and the Florida Tea Party Movement; title: 14 Social Inclusion, Farmer Resignation, and the Challenges of Information Technology Implementation15 Smartphones Adoption and Usage by 50+ Adults in the United Kingdom; title: 16 Literacy and Identity Links Forging Digital Inclusion?: Critical Reflections and Signposts From a Qualitative Study; title: Conclusion; title: Index