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The Digital City. The American Metropolis and Information Technology.
M. Laguerre
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Description for The Digital City. The American Metropolis and Information Technology.
Paperback. Num Pages: 211 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFC; JFD; JHB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Evolving out of a research project on information technology and society, the book explores the digitization of the American city. Laguerre examines the impact of changes to various sectors of society, brought about by the advent of information technology and the Internet upon daily life in the contemporary American metropolis. The book focuses on actual information technology practices in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco metropolitan area, explaining how those practices are remoulding social relations, global interaction and the workplace environment.
Evolving out of a research project on information technology and society, the book explores the digitization of the American city. Laguerre examines the impact of changes to various sectors of society, brought about by the advent of information technology and the Internet upon daily life in the contemporary American metropolis. The book focuses on actual information technology practices in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco metropolitan area, explaining how those practices are remoulding social relations, global interaction and the workplace environment.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
211
Condition
New
Number of Pages
211
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349546091
SKU
V9781349546091
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99-15
About M. Laguerre
MICHEL S. LAGUERRE is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published several books, including The Global Ethnopolis; Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society, Urban Multiculturalism and Globalisation in New York City, Diasporic Citizenship, The Informal City, and Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial ... Read more
Reviews for The Digital City. The American Metropolis and Information Technology.
'...it has been a pleasure to review a book that seems to offer to the reader, as a matter of course, the solidity of facts, data and references. This has been achieved without boring the reader...The author achieves fully and successfully his intent.' - Lanfranco Aceti, Information, Communication& Society