Virtual Society? : Technology, Cyberbole, Reality, Paperback by Woolgar, Stev...

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Item Width: 6.1 in Type: Textbook Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated Language: English Item Weight: 19 Oz Number of Pages: 368 Pages Publication Year: 2003 Format: Uk-Trade Paper ISBN: 9780199248766 gtin13: 9780199248766 Item Length: 9.2 in Subject: Social Aspects, Social Aspects / General, Information Management Item Height: 0.8 in Publication Name: Virtual Society? Get Real! : Technology, Cyberbole, Reality Subject Area: Computers, Technology & Engineering, Business & Economics Author: Steve Woolgar Book Title: Virtual Society? : Technology, Cyberbole, Reality

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Virtual Society? : Technology, Cyberbole, Reality, Paperback by Woolgar, Steve (EDT), ISBN 0199248761, ISBN-13 9780199248766, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 amount to our transition to a virtual society.