Technology in Action

by Paul Luff and Christian Heath

Book Overview

Despite extraordinary advances in digital and communication technology over recent years, we know very little about the way these complex systems affect everyday work and interaction. This book seeks to explore these issues through a series of video-based field studies that look at the introduction of basic information systems in general medical practice, news production, the control rooms of the London Underground and computer aided design in architectural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521560330
• ISBN13: 9780521560337
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 286 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"