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Four professors from the London School of Economics, a WDR/LIRNE.NET partner, collaborated in the recently released book The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies. The handbook is about the many challenges presented by ICTs. It sets out an intellectual agenda that examines the implications of ICTs for individuals, organizations, democracy, and the economy.

The production and consumption of information and communication technologies (or ICTs) are becoming deeply embedded within our societies. The influence and implications of this have an impact at a macro level, in the way our governments, economies, and businesses operate, and at a micro level in our everyday lives. This book sets out an intellectual agenda that examines the implications of ICTs for individuals, organizations, democracy, and the economy.

Explicity interdisciplinary, and combining empirical research with theoretical work, it is organised around four themes covering the knowledge economy; organizational dynamics, strategy, and design; governance and democracy; and culture, community and new media literacies.

It provides a comprehensive resource for those working in the social sciences, and in the physical sciences and engineering fields, wih leading contemporary research informed principally by the disciplines of anthropology, economics, philosophy, politics, and sociology.

The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies
Edited by Robin Mansell, Professor of New Media and the Internet, London School of Economics and Political Science, Chrisanthi Avgerou, Professor of Information Systems, London School of Economics, Danny Quah, Professor of Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science and Roger Silverstone, Professor of Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Contents:

Part I: The Knowledge Economy and ICTs
Part II: Organizational Dynamics, Strategy, Design, and ICTs
Part III: Governance, Democracy, and ICTs
Part IV: Culture, Community, and New Media Literacies

For more information and a full list of contents and contributors on the publisher's site click here...