Books in the Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society series

Presents a prescriptive theory to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the shape of post-industrial, information-based societies.

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance.

How are we to deal with Big Data? When is it beneficial to us? How might we regulate it? Offering careful and critical analyses, this timely volume aims to broaden well-informed, unprejudiced discourse, focusing on: the tenets of Big Data, the politics of governance and regulation; and Big Data practices, performance and resistance.

This book explores the most recent developments regarding youth and media in a global perspective. With interdisciplinary contributions from international experts, this collection shows that the differentiation between an offline world and an online world is inapplicable to the lives of most young people. It examines which new anthropological, and cultural-historical conditions and changes arise in connection with the widespread presence of digital media in the lives of the networked teens. The volume demonstrates the pedagogic potential of digital media to achieve inclusive and quality education for all. However it also analyses the digital productions and virtual communication of young people in the context of economic crisis, showing the great political potential of digital culture. This collection also represents an innovative contribution to virtual research methods, introducing research carried out using methods which traverse the boundaries between youth life online and youth life offline, so as to examine how digital and mobile technologies mediate young people¿s communication with each other and with the world.

How are we to deal with Big Data? When is it beneficial to us? How might we regulate it? Offering careful and critical analyses, this timely volume aims to broaden well-informed, unprejudiced discourse, focusing on: the tenets of Big Data, the politics of governance and regulation; and Big Data practices, performance and resistance.

This book discusses some of the newest developments of the internet, examining its impact on political, economic and psychological processes, the shaping of communication technology under social, cultural and organizational constraints, and the development of theories, methods and pedagogical tools to account for these transformations.

Grounded in qualitative empirical research about social media users' attitudes towards privacy and surveillance issues, this book contributes to a critical theory of information capitalism by exploring the commodification of privacy and personal data, providing a critical framing of the ongoing debate over privacy in the internet age.

This book is the essential guide for understanding how state power and politics are contested and exercised on social media. It brings together contributions by social media scholars who explore the connection of social media with revolutions, uprising, protests, power and counter-power, hacktivism, the state, policing and surveillance.

In this important methodological study, Alistair Duff cuts through the rhetoric to get to the bottom of the 'information society thesis.' This work is for scholars in media studies, information science and social theory.

Featuring practical guidance and analytical analysis, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform and includes case studies from USA, UK, Europe and developing countries.

This book discusses some of the newest developments of the internet, examining its impact on political, economic and psychological processes, the shaping of communication technology under social, cultural and organizational constraints, and the development of theories, methods and pedagogical tools to account for these transformations.

Breaking new ground by bringing together empirical work done in the vein of the emergent field of "digital religion" and larger social-theoretical discussions on secularism and modernity, this book investigates the powerful entanglement of religion and new media technologies.

This volume presents a comparative survey exploring the challenges of the implementation e-government in Europe, the US, Australia and Asia. It examines national government strategies and their institutional framework of coordination.

Featuring practical guidance and analytical analysis, this work reviews the role of information systems in public sector reform and includes case studies from USA, UK, Europe and developing countries.

Discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. This study highlights how new forms of cooperation and competition are advanced and supported by the internet in subsystems of society and also discusses opportunities and risks of the information society.

Examines the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement, giving exceptional insight into the struggle by hackers over technological development and legislation.

Focuses on the implications that the phenomenon of cyberconflict (conflict in computer mediated environments and the internet) has on politics, society and culture. Hacking between ethnoreligious groups, and the use of the internet in events in China, this work covers the Israel-Palestine conflict, India-Pakistan conflict, and more.

This book explores and compares why and to what extent, national governments decide to control the Internet and how this impacts on crucial socio-economic activities and fundamental civil rights.

Migrants and diaspora communities are shaped by their use of information and communication technologies. This book explores the multifaceted role played by new media in the re-location of these groups of people, assisting them in their efforts to defeat nostalgia, construct new communities, and keep connected with their communities of origin. Furthermore, the book analyses the different ways in which migrants contribute, along with natives, in co-constructing contemporary societies ΓÇô a process in which the cultures of both groups are considered. Drawing on contributions from a range of disciplines including sociology, anthropology, psychology and linguistics, it offers a more profound understanding of one of the most significant phenomena of contemporary international societies ΓÇô the migration of nearly a billion people worldwide - and the relationship between technology and society.