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This article considers questions of technological change, innovation, and communication from a disability perspective. Using a critical social perspective on disability, we offer an Australian case study to analyse disability in national telecommunications policy. In doing so, we critique the...
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This paper presents an alternative perspective of the pedagogical and other merits of the Internet in undergraduate … Internet and to the Internet's capacity for altering relationships, power structures and ways of 'managing' organisations. The … need for there to be a critical appreciation of the effects of metonymy and metaphor when the Internet is being considered …
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the social aspects of technology, and bring it to bear on policy and practice. Enthusiasm over the Internet and other …
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This article characterises the 'intellectual commons', and the relationship between it, commoners and the state. It is argued that in a democracy the State should adopt a steward-type role over the intellectual commons. This role dictates that regulation should be in the best interests of the...
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There is wide agreement on the value of multidisciplinary social research related to information and communication technologies. This paper provides insights into the dynamics at play in these studies, drawing on an in-depth analysis of exchanges among an international group of experts from many...
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This article examines the extent to which the implementation of Internet technology by Birmingham City Council (BCC) is … complex, conflict-ridden transition. Networked uses of Internet technologies have resulted in shifts being made towards a new …
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communication space of the Internet. This work will summarize people's discussions on the Internet relating to the September 11 … Internet was used, not only as a medium for obtaining more information about the attacks, but also as a medium for discussion …
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The Internet is a tool with the potential to enable consumers to effectively participate in collective bargaining in … Internet era. First, some theoretical perspectives on how on-line consumer networks have the potential to be a new source of … countervailing power are introduced. Next, the potential for consumer countervailing power in the Internet era is discussed. A case …
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In studies of firms' internationalisation, language has tended to be bundled into 'cultural and psychic distance boxes'. In this article, an attempt is made to unbundle the impact of language through (a) an examination of the way in which language influences the pattern of foreign market...
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The Internet is creating a global digital economy with new opportunities. Developing countries have to catch up with …
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