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  • The Digital Divide

    by Jan van Dijk ...
    Contrary to optimistic visions of a free internet for all, the problem of the ‘digital divide’ – the disparity between those with access to internet technology and those without – has persisted for close to twenty-five years.In this textbook, Jan van Dijk considers the state of digital inequality and what we can do to tackle it. Through an accessible framework based on empirical research, he ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Power and Technology

    A Theory of Social, Technical and Natural Power

    by Jan van Dijk ...
    The definition of power varies across disciplines. Social scientists tend to deal with social power, philosophers of technology with the relation between technology and society, and ecologists with the relation between natural and social power. Concepts of power and technology are freely used but this relationship is complex and multifaceted.In this analytic and ambitious textbook, Jan van Dijk ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • The Network Society

    by Jan A G M van Dijk ...
    The Network Societyisa clear, engaging guide to the past, consequences and future of digital communication, and forms a comprehensive introduction to how new media functions in contemporary society.Integrating both face-to-face and online communication, the fourth edition explores crucial new issues and challenges in today’s digital media ecology, in doing so exploring the centralityof power to ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • Internet and Democracy in the Network Society

    by Jan A.G.M. van Dijk, Kenneth L. Hacker ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Global Information, Politics and Society
    A seminal shift has taken place in the relationship between Internet usage and politics. At the turn of the century, it was presumed that digital communication would produce many positive political effects like improvements to political information retrieval, support for public debate and community formation or even enhancements in citizen participation in political decision-making. While there ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Deepening Divide

    Inequality in the Information Society

    by Jan A G M van Dijk ...
    During the mid 90′s, around the time the Internet became popular, it became apparent that there was still one critical issue holding back limitless opportunities. Computer professionals had to find a way to close the gap between those who do not have computer or Internet access and those who do, also known as the digital divide. Suddenly, hundreds of conferences of computer professionals, social ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • The World of Crime

    Breaking the Silence on Problems of Security, Justice and Development Across the World

    by Jan J. M. van Dijk ...
    *"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption, terrorism, law enforcement, criminal justice and sustainable development."—*Johnson Thomas, BUSINESS ... Read more

    $70.19 USD

  • Information and Communication Technology in Organizations

    Adoption, Implementation, Use and Effects

    by Harry Bouwman, Bart van den Hooff, Lidwien van de Wijngaert, Jan A G M van Dijk ...
    How best can we understand why the application of information and communication technology in organizations succeeds or fails? Calling on technical, organisational, social, psychological and economic perspectives, this book provides a fresh and comprehensive framework for answering this question.Consideration is given to how ICT is adopted, implemented and used within organizations. Throughout ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The New Faces of Victimhood

    Globalization, Transnational Crimes and Victim Rights

    Edited by Rianne Letschert, Jan van Dijk ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Besides generating wealth, globalization makes victims, including victims of new forms of crime. In this edited book of scholarly essays, international lawyers and criminologists reflect on the legal challenges posed by these dark sides of globalization. Examples include transnational organised crime, human trafficking and corruption, cyber crimes, international terrorism, global corporate crime ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

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  • Understanding New Media

    by Eugenia Siapera ...
    The new media landscape touches every aspect of our social, political and cultural lives. It is more important than ever, therefore, that we are able to understand and explain the complexity of our digital world.Understanding New Media gives students the tools and the knowledge they need to make sense of the relationship between technologies, media and society. This best-selling student ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Digital Media and Society

    An Introduction

    by Adrian Athique ...
    The rise of digital media has been widely regarded as transforming the nature of our social experience in the twenty-first century. The speed with which new forms of connectivity and communication are being incorporated into our everyday lives often gives us little time to stop and consider the social implications of those practices. Nonetheless, it is critically important that we do so, and this ... Read more

    $32.00 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies

    Edited by William H. Dutton ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Internet Studies has been one of the most dynamic and rapidly expanding interdisciplinary fields to emerge over the last decade. The Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies has been designed to provide a valuable resource for academics and students in this area, bringing together leading scholarly perspectives on how the Internet has been studied and how the research agenda should be pursued in the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Understanding E-Government

    Information Systems in Public Administration

    by Vincent Homburg ...
    Governments these days often boast about the efficiency of their electronic systems. Information communication technologies (ICTs) apparently allow public service to become cheaper, faster and more democratic. E-government has become another buzzword, the shining future of the public realm. Critics claim, however, that ICTs’ potential for democratic renewal is hampered by ancient assumptions of ... Read more

    $72.99 USD