Title: The Digital City
First published: 2005
Description: "Evolving out of a research project on information technology and society, the book explores the digitization of the American city. Laguerre examines the impact of changes to various sectors of society, brought about by the advent of information technology and the Internet upon daily life in the contemporary American metropolis. The book focuses on actual information technology practices in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco metropolitan area, documenting and explaining how those practices are remoulding social relations, global interaction and workplace environments."--Jacket.
Subjects: Social aspects, Cyberspace, Sociology, Urban, Telecommuting, Internet, Social conditions, High technology industries, Information technology, Social aspects of Information technology, Social aspects of Internet, Urban Sociology, Internet, social aspects, San francisco bay area (calif.), California, social conditions, COMPUTERS, Media studies, Cultural studies, Urban communities
Places: California, San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
LC classification: HN80.S4 L33 2005