UFIE95-20-3
Information Systems and Society
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You are expected to supplement lecture and tutorial material with your own reading. Where possible a choice is offered and you may make your own preference. Directed reading appears on each weeks' tutorial page. This will be mostly in electronic form, but also from the Library or instructors' handouts.

Recommended Texts

Seely Brown, John and Duguid, Paul, 2000, The Social Life of Information, HBS Press

Essential and highly readable collection of essays showing how technologies, communities, organizations and institutions mesh together. Much of this is now available on-line.

Gere, C, 2002, Digital Culture, London: Reaktion Books.

An interesting and entertaining historical account of the development of information-computer technology and its potential beyond the workplace.

Kling, R (ed), 1996, Computerization and Controversy, Academic Press

Somewhat dated but the most comprehensive collection available.

Walsham, G., 2001, Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context, Chichester, UK: Wiley.

Includes an excellent survey of the theoretical views of the role of information and communication technologies in the contemporary world, particularly in the workplace.

Further Reading

Castells, M., 2001, The Internet Galaxy: Reflections on the Internet, Business and Society, Oxford: OUP.

Dreyfus, H, 2001, On the Internet: Thinking in Action, New York: Routledge.

Graham, G, 1999, The internet: a philosophical inquiry, London: Routledge.

Mansell, R. and Steinmueller, W. E., 2002, Mobilizing the Information Society, Oxford University Press.

Thompson, P and Warhurst, C, (eds.), 1998, Workplaces of the Future, London: Macmillan Press

Wellman, B and Haythornthwaite, C, (eds.) 2002, The internet in everyday life, Oxford: Blackwell.

Journals

The following titles are all available from the library and online. You will need an Athens login and some may only be available via UWE networks.

The Information Society Journal

Information, Communication and Society

Information, Technology and People

Information Technology and Society

Communications of the ACM

Web-based Journals

FirstMonday

D-Lib Magazine