Virtual Society?: Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

by Steve Woolgar

This book investigates the precise effects on society of the new and much vaunted electronic technologies (ICTs). All aspects of our social, cultural, economic, and political life stand to be affected by their continued massive growth, but are fundamental shifts already taking place in the way in which we behave, organize, and interact as a direct result of the new technologies? The contributors to the volume argue that their transformative effects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199248761
• ISBN13: 9780199248766
• Release Date: February 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.6"