The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life: 55 - Rilegato

 
9781433104213: The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life: 55
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ISBN 10: 1433104210 ISBN 13: 9781433104213
Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2009

Sinossi

The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life reveals how people are managing, exploiting, and resisting technological developments in the digital age. In this unique volume, distinguished experts from a broad range of fields candidly show how the latest technologies are being used to transform and control nitty-gritty aspects of life from conception onward and the surprising benefits and consequences. Bold and provocative, The Culture of Efficiency is for everyone concerned with efficiency and effectiveness. It offers fresh insights about social trends, practical suggestions for improving everyday life, and vital forecasts about the future of work and leisure. This is essential reading for researchers, professionals, and students in communication, sociology, education, anthropology, psychology, organizational science, operations management, marketing, gender studies, environmental studies, American studies, healthcare, and social policy. Overall, the volume offers a rich interpretation of the meaning of living in a culture of efficiency.

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Informazioni sull?autore

The Editor : Sharon Kleinman is Professor of Communications at Quinnipiac University. Her research focuses on the social implications of communication technologies and on issues concerning online and place-based communities. She is the editor of the critically acclaimed book Displacing Place : Mobile Communication in the Twenty-first Century (Peter Lang, 2007). She holds a B.A. in English and American literature from Brandeis University and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in communication from Cornell University.

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Editore
Peter Lang Pub Inc
Data di pubblicazione
2009
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1433104210
ISBN 13 
9781433104213
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
390
Redattore
Kleinman Sharon
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781433104206: The Culture of Efficiency: Technology in Everyday Life: 55

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  1433104202 ISBN 13:  9781433104206
Casa editrice: Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2009
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