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The book is an exploration of the theoretical, conceptual and methodological foundations of human-centred design. Specifically, it critically examines the notion of 'practice' and argues for an understanding of the concept which emanates from engagement with design problems rather than simply from social scientific theory. The contributors to the book in their various ways all subscribe to a systematic account of how practice- oriented studies can inform design. Using the perspective of 'grounded design', it pursues a long term view of the design process, arguing for user engagement from the very earliest stages of design policy, including methods for understanding user practices to inform initial design policies up to and including processes of appropriation as technologies are embedded in contexts of use. Grounded design is a perspective which also deals with the vexed problem of appropriate generalization in design studies and the kinds of cross-comparison that can usefully be done. The book contains a number of case studies which exemplify these themes, some of which are rooted in the use of technology in organizational contexts, others of which deal with design in contexts such as care of the elderly, firefighting and multicultural education.
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• Preface
• Introduction : peak connection
• Part one :the way to Wellville
• Hostile landscapes
• Fitness as a metaphor
• New hierarchies of need
• Part two : The blended self
• The social soul
• Worker beings
• Networks and networkers
• Conclusion : the fully connected future
• Appendix : Hexagon thinking - six practical practices around social health
• Postscript : a view from the bridge
• Bibliography
• Acknowledgements-- Index.

Twenty-five years after the arrival of the Internet, we are drowning in data and deadlines. Humans and machines are in fully connected overdrive - and starting to become entwined as never before. Truly, it is an Age of Overload. We can never have imagined that absorbing so much information while trying to maintain a healthy balance in our personal and professional lives could feel so complex, dissatisfying and unproductive. Something is missing. That something, Julia Hobsbawm argues in this ground-breaking book, is Social Health, a new blueprint for modern connectedness. She begins with the premise that much of what we think about healthy ways to live have not been updated any more than have most post-war modern institutions, which are themselves also struggling in the twenty-first century. In 1946, the World Health Organization defined `health' as `a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.' What we understood by 'social' in the middle of the last century now desperately needs an update. In Fully Connected Julia Hobsbawm takes us on a journey - often a personal one, 'from Telex to Twitter' - to illustrate how the answer to the Age of Overload can come from devising management-based systems which are both highly practical and yet intuitive, and which draw inspiration from the huge advances the world has made in tackling other kinds of health, specifically nutrition, exercise, and mental well-being. Drawing on the latest thinking in health and behavioural economics, social psychology, neuroscience, management and social network analysis, this book provides a cornucopia of case studies and ideas, to educate and inspire a new generation of managers, policymakers and anyone wanting to navigate through the rough seas of overload.
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• La civilisation numérique
• La prise de pouvoir digitale
• Tous connectés
• Les machines parlent aux machines
• L'impossible déconnexion
• Un tunnel télécommunicant
• Un cataclysme national
• La panne mondiale
• Les aventuriers de la déconnexion
• La place de l'homme
• La dissolution des travailleurs
• Le technostress des champs
• Le monde selon ISO
• Le bonheur n'est plus dans le pré
• Drones des champs et drones des villes
• Les objets parlent aux objets
• L'homme au travail, ce bogue entre deux machines
• Le trader, ce bogue entre deux data centers
• L'idéologie gestionnaire
• Le politique, ce bogue entre deux experts
• La désinstitutionnalisation des institutions
• Le ROI républicain
• Le ROI est nu
• L'argent organisé
• No ticket, no work!
• L'entreprise innervée
• La pandémie du stress au travail
• Une pathologie sociale chronique
• Le thermomètre et les symptômes
• Alourdissement des tâches
• Manque de temps
• Cadences infernales
• Les TIC entraînent des temps de réponse toujours plus courts
• Les TIC génèrent trop d'information
• Les TIC engendrent un nombre croissant de tâches à traiter en dehors des horaires et du lieu de travail
• Les équipements fournis par l'entreprise
• Une absence de régulation électronique
• La généralisation de la laisse électronique
• Le droit à la déconnexion est à inventer
• Les facteurs de stress les plus cités
• Les geeks et les luddites
• Les digital natives sont-ils des mutants?
• Des liaisons dangereuses contrôlées?
• 24 pièges dans la jungle
• L'angoisse du temps mort
• Toujours plus vite
• Le travail à la maison (et inversement)
• Toujours tout de suite
• Quoi évalue qui?
• Les jeunes sont-ils multitâches?
• Éloge de l'esprit vagabond
• Le grand embouteillage électronique
• La peur de la disparition numérique
• L'homme réactif
• La roue et l'écureuil
• L'info bésité
• Tous manutentionnaires!
• Des bibliothèques en tablettes
• La victime et le bourreau
• Le règne des entremetteurs
• Le bruit ou le signal?
• Quand est-ce qu'on arrive?
• La pensée magique 2.0
• La dictature des chiffres
• Le déluge et le parapluie
• Le rétablissement du servage
• Le travail en miettes
• La dissolution des relations humaines
• Le Cloud ou le smog.

"Le numérique bouleverse nos sociétés de façon extrêmement rapide. Sommes-nous enfin en train de vivre la mutation attendue vers un monde meilleur, une civilisation de la culture et des loisirs où les robots assureront les travaux pénibles ? Rien n'est moins sûr. L'homme semble hypnotisé par les nouvelles technologies, à portée de main via les écrans, les smartphones, les objets connectés de plus en plus sophistiqués... qui sont censés lui faciliter la vie, professionnelle ou privée. Pourtant, entre les promesses et les réalités, entre les mirages que véhicule la Silicon Valley et les pratiques sociales qui se mettent effectivement en place, les écarts se creusent. Un monde meilleur? nous invite à vivre une aventure de science-fiction dans les méandres de ce nouvel environnement culturel qui constitue notre réalité quotidienne. Sans, bien évidemment, rejeter en bloc ces nouvelles technologies, il est temps en revanche d'observer attentivement les pièges que tend la société technico-financière digitalisée à chaque citoyen comme à chaque organisation. L'homo numericus doit ouvrir les yeux sur la portée de ses inventions. C'est tout l'objet de ce livre, qui observe dans sa globalité l'écosystème de travail numérisé et met au jour les liaisons dangereuses qui existent entre les TIC et la pandémie du stress au travail. Infobésité, manque de temps chronique, dictature des chiffres, dissolution des relations humaines... : jamais l'influence directe de cette "laisse électronique" n'était aussi clairement apparue. Patrons, salariés, parents, enfants, pédagogues, dirigeants politiques... nous sommes tous concernés. Et c'est en déchiffrant notre environnement que nous acquerrons les moyens d'agir, d'infléchir et d'orienter nos choix, en refusant de laisser les algorithmes décider pour nous."--P. [4] of cover.

• List of tables and boxes List of abbreviations About the contributors Introduction: new imaginings
• Part 1: Communities, Exiles and Resistance
• Chapter 1: The inevitable exile: a missing link in online community discourse Abstract: Place is the thing Panoptical temptation Reincarnation as networked norm Forgiveness not permission Culture jammer or parasite? I've got you under my skin Permaban and punish Legibility and responsibility Every tool is a weapon if you hold it right94
• Chapter 2: Call it hyper activism: politicising the online Arab public sphere and the quest for authenticity and relevance Abstract: From blogging to YouTube: politicising the internet From call-in programs to online comments: participatory culture
• Chapter 3: WhataEURO (TM)s in a name? Digital resources and resistance at the global periphery Abstract: Resistance and the nation state SouthAfrica.com NewZealand.com Tuvalu and .tv .md: who represents Moldova? What's in a domain (name)? Cautions and conflicts: .tp and Timorese independence
• Chapter 4: I have seen the future, and it rings Abstract: Mobile phones and social change Day-to-day use of mobile phones Conclusion
• Part 2: Structures for Sharing
• Chapter 5: Strangers in the swarm Abstract: The history of file sharing Bit Torrent Identities in the swarm The future
• Chapter 6: Status (update) anxiety: social networking, Facebook and community Abstract: It's all about me Watching the self (being watched)
• Chapter 7: Becoming Mireila: a virtual ethnography through the eyes of an avatar Abstract: Entry Stripping Mireila Feeders Self
• Chapter 8: Taste is the enemy of creativity: disability, YouTube and a new language Abstract: Disability is a social construction Lessons from Picasso Digital disability
• Part 3: Professions, Production, Consumptions
• Chapter 9: The sound of a librarian: the politics and potential of podcasting in difficult times Abstract: iPod studies Why should librarians use podcasts? Questions of quality
• Chapter 10: The invisible (wo)man Abstract: Introducing Nazlin Endings
• Chapter 11: The impact of the video-equipped DSLR Abstract: The video DSLR The future
• Chapter 12: Why media literacy is transformative of the Irish education system: a statement in advocacy Abstract: New literacies Managing disadvantage Multiliteracy for an Information Age
• Chapter 13: YouTube Academy Abstract: Doing `everything' with YouTube Broadcasting academics
• Part 4: Fandom, Consumption and Community
• Chapter 14: Live fast, die young, become immortal Abstract: Prescience Mediated grief Living digital death
• Chapter 15: All we hear is Lady-o Gaga: Popular Culture 2.0 Abstract: Music Gender and fashion Fandom
• Chapter 16: Copyright and couture: the Comme il Faut experience Abstract: Intellectual property: copyrighting couture Online retailers and the long tail of e-commerce Fashion and failure Comme il Faut couture
• Chapter 17: When community becomes a commodity Abstract: Digital identity Online communities Google Facebook Online dating Online games Cultivating digital identity and harvesting digital community Conclusion: white men rule? References Index.
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Digital Dialogue and Community 2.0: After avatars, trolls and puppets explores the communities that use digital platforms, portals, and applications from daily life to build relationships beyond geographical locality and family links. The book provides detailed analyses of how technology realigns the boundaries between connection, consciousness and community. This book reveals that alongside every engaged, nurturing and supportive group are those who are excluded, marginalised, ridiculed, or forgotten. It explores the argument that community is not an inevitable result of communication. Following an introduction from the Editor, the book is then divided into four sections exploring communities and resistance, structures of sharing, professional communication and fandom and consumption. Digital Dialogues and Community 2.0 combines ethnographic methods and professional expertise to open new spaces for thinking about language, identity, and social connections.
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'The information society' refers to a constellation of developments arising from the growing use of communication technologies in the acquisition, storage, and processing of information, and the role of information in supporting the creation and exchange of knowledge. Research on information societies really began to take off in the 1970s when Daniel Bell wrote about 'the information age'. While there were earlier works that focused on the growing importance of information in the economy, it was not until the mid-1990s and the spread of the Internet that this field of study experienced a huge expansion across a broad range of disciplines in the social sciences and beyond.A critical mass of scholarship has now accumulated, establishing 'the information society' and 'information societies' as a terrain of substance and complexity, the exploration and understanding of which requires increasingly sophisticated navigation skills. As research in and around the area continues to flourish as never before, this new title in "Routledge's Major Works" series, "Critical Concepts in Sociology", meets the need for an authoritative reference work to make sense of a rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of literature, and to provide a map of the area as it has emerged and developed over the last thirty years or so."The Information Society" is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students - as well as policy-makers and practitioners in the field - as a vital one-stop research resource.
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What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of 'connectivity' and 'efficiency' constituted a break with the old ways. But other thinkers viewed it more in terms of the recurrent nightmare of capitalism, where the processes of exploitation, commodification and alienation are given much freer rein than ever before.In this book Robert Hassan, a prominent theorist in new media and its effects, analyses and critically appraises these positions and forms them into a coherent narrative to illuminate the phenomenon. Surveying the works of major information society theorists from Daniel Bell to Nicholas Negroponte, and from Vincent Mosco to Manuel Castells, "Understanding the Information Society: Cyber Dreams and Digital Nightmares" is an invaluable resource for understanding the nature of the information society - as well as the meta-processes of neoliberal globalisation and the revolution in information technologies that made it possible.
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• Knowledge management
• electronic publishing
• appropriate technologies
• information literacy
• the surveillance society
• the press and privacy
• data protection
• freedom versus protection
• international perspectives
• the role of the professional in the information society.
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Information delivery and use is being challenged by both social and technological developments and this has caused a fundamental and ongoing rethink of the role of information providers in society. This text provides a rounded, multi-perspective view of today's information society, covering key areas of discussion within the information society debate. It gives an overview of each issue whilst at the same time offering a deeper level of discussion, debate and analysis. The contributions are divided into five sections encompassing broad themes. Part 1 outlines theories of the information society, Part 2 discusses policy and organizational perspectives, Part 3 addresses the technological imperative, Part 4 considers the implications of the information society and the individual and Part 5 looks at professional issues.
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• The hypothesis of hypercomplexity
• The practical self-observation of the hypercomplex society : the cohesive force of polycentrism
• The aesthetic self-observation of the hypercomplex society : theocentrism, anthropocentrism, and polycentrism
• The pure self-observation of the hypercomplex society : the emerging orthodoxy of paradoxicality
• Communication, media, and public opinion of the hypercomplex society
• The communication medium of the hypercomplex society : the digital network.

• Acknowledgements. Preface.
• 1. What is the Global Information Society? The Idea of an Information Society Four Central Claims about the Information Society
• 2. Locating the 'Information Age' in History: The New Age Technological Determinism and the Information Age Lewis Mumford and Technological History Marx, Capitalism and the Information Society The Informationalization of Society
• 3. Information Capital, Property and Labour: The Transformation of Work Statistics and the Information Society What is Service Work? The End of Work as We Know it? The Continuity of Property Relations (Information) Labour in the Global Economy
• 4. Communities, Individuals and Politics in the Information Society: Politics in the Information Age (New) Political Communities Images, Gifts and Information Politics Individualism in the Information Society Communicating Politics
• 5. W(h)ither the State? Early Views of the State in the Information Age Sidelining the State 'And Still it Moves' Globalization, the Information Society and the State A Death Frequently Foretold
• 6. Back to the Future: Shortcomings of Technological Forecasting The Dual Dynamic of Information Society Sceptical yet Hopeful Appendix: Intellectual Property References Index.
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In this timely new book, Christopher May surveys some of the most influential and important writings that declare we are entering a new information age. It is frequently asserted that this will bring about a social transformation and that the character of work is being transformed by the widespread deployment of information and communication technologies. In a similar manner we are told the world of politics is changing, with new communities emerging which will alter the practices of politics in profound and novel ways, and which will significantly reduce the role of the state and government. Each of these claims is subjected to a detailed critique. Christopher May suggests that while there have clearly been some major and important changes prompted by the information technology revolution, these are often changes only in the forms of activity and not their substance. The information age represents some marked and important continuities with previous social practices, rather than the overthrow of all that has gone before. This sceptical view balances and moderates the often hysterical celebration of the new information society - a celebration which, the author argues, often lapses into an apologia for modern capitalism. The Information Society will be of particular interest to students in sociology, politics, political economy, media and cultural studies and information studies.
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• 1. Competing Interests and Strategies in the Information Society
• 2. Social Communities: Access and Users' Capabilities
• 3. Transforming the Infrastructure Supporting the Information Society
• 4. Chaos in Service Innovations and Applications
• 5. Controlling Electronic Commerce Transactions
• 6. Liberalization and the Process and Implications of Standardization
• 7. Electronic Intellectual Property and Creative Knowledge Production
• 8. Building Trust for Virtual Communities
• 9. Locating the Consequences of Information Society Developments
• 10. Recapitulating the Themes and Facing the Future.
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'Mobilizing the Information Society' provides a critical assessment of progress towards the Information Society. It begins from the premise that the construction of the Information Society in Europe is a dynamic process and that the journey towards a society that is so heavily dependent on capacities to generate, distribute, and use digital information is far from straightforward. The book draws upon empirical research generated by researchers based in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy, and France that was originally funded by the European Commission's Fourth Framework Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (ACTS) Programme which ran from 1994 to 1998. This book updates the original research, integrates the results around core themes, and provides an assessment of progress that has been made towards addressing key issues of interest to policy makers, the business community, and technology and service users. The authors lay the foundation for more useful theories of the process of change, more appropriate strategies to achieve the desired aims, and more effective policies for increasing the benefits and mitigating the effects of dislocation and exclusion from the Information Society. 'Mobilizing the Information Society' provides unique insights into the social, economic, and political forces that are structuring the pathway to the Information Society - and its consequences for business and individuals in their everyday lives.
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