The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological ChangeEdward Elgar Publishing, 01.01.2007 - 216 Seiten Jannis Kallinikos analyzes the recent spectacular growth of information and the self-propelling processes through which technological information is increasingly generated out of the reshuffling and recombination of available and interoperable information |
Inhalt
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Technological Design and Social Systems | 21 |
Information Growth as a SelfReferential Process | 48 |
Excursus on Meaning Purpose and Information | 76 |
Networks Revisited | 86 |
Addendum on Networks and Institutions | 111 |
The Organizational Order of Modernity | 125 |
Epilogue on Technology and Institutions | 154 |
Indicators and Patterns of Information Growth | 164 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Actor-Network Theory administrative analysed associated Borgmann bounded and hierarchical bureaucracy bureaucratic form Castells character cognitive communication technologies complex computational computer-based systems computer-based technologies constitution construction contemporary context contingent cracy crucial data mining deep web degree DeSanctis developments diffusion DiMaggio Dionysios Demetis disaggregation distinctive domain economic emerge employment contract example formal organizations functional simplification genetic biology global industrial information and communication information growth dynamics information processes informatization infospace infrastructures instrumental interaction interoperable involvement of individuals issues Kallinikos 1996 labour Luhmann major markets mation means ments modern modes networks nizational nological non-inclusive involvement orga organizational arrangements organizational form organizational operations outcome patterns practices preceding chapter principles procedures produced reality regulation relations relationship rendition role Sassen significance simplification and closure social agents standardization strategies structural suggest surface web tech techno technological information Terabytes tion tional trends variety wider Zuboff
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 186 - Braa, K (2001). The control devolution: ERP and the side effects of globalization. The DATA BASE for Advances in Information Systems.
Seite vii - The ecology of things used to enforce an economy of signs. The technology of information, however, has loosed a profusion of signs, and there is by now a rising sense of alarm about the flood of information that, instead of irrigating the culture, threatens to ravage it.