Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
List of Tables and Figures......Page 11
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
Introduction......Page 28
Properties of Technology......Page 30
Part I: Digital Communication......Page 38
1 Technology, Innovation, Power, and Social Consequence......Page 40
1.1 The World Summit Awards Benchmarking Arabic Websites: A Case Study of Governance......Page 53
1.2 Test Driving E-Participation: The Case of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country)......Page 56
1.3 Visualizing Electricity and Magnetism: The Collaborative Development of a Multimedia Text......Page 59
Part II: Defining New Media......Page 62
2 Emergent Journalism and Mass Media Paradigms in the Digital Society......Page 64
2.1 CitizenShift and Parole Citoyenne: The Democratization of Media......Page 77
2.2 Presidential Rhetoric in 140 Characters or Less......Page 80
2.3 Web 2.0 Technologies and the Museum......Page 83
Part III: The Texts of Digital Publishing......Page 86
3 Academic Publishing at the Crossroads......Page 88
3.1 The Open Textbook: From Modules to Mash-Ups......Page 98
3.2 Community and Communion: Books as Communal Artifacts in the Digital Age......Page 102
3.3 Is the \'E-Incunabula\' the One Solution for Scientific Communication?......Page 105
Part IV: The Digital Citizen......Page 108
4 Digital Citizenship......Page 110
4.1 Facebook in Egypt: April 6 and the Perception of a New Political Sphere......Page 124
4.2 Grassroots Politics in Popular Online Spaces: Balancing Alliances......Page 126
4.3 From Disability to Functional Diversity: ICT and Amartya Sen\'s Approach......Page 129
Part V: Power, Knowledge, Surveillance......Page 132
5 Surveillance, Power and Everyday Life......Page 134
5.1 Full Spectrum Surveillance: NYPD, Panopticism and the Public Disciplinary Complex......Page 148
5.2 The Wired Body and Event Construction: Mobile Technologies and the Technological Gaze......Page 150
5.3 Configuring the Face as a Technology of Citizenship: Biometrics, Surveillance and the Facialization of Institutional Identity......Page 153
Part VI: Digital Property......Page 156
6 Whose Property? Mapping Intellectual Property Rights, Contextualizing Digital Technology and Framing Social Justice......Page 158
6.1 Ethical Concerns about Digital Property: The Case of FLOSS Licenses......Page 172
6.2 On/Off the Agenda: Intellectual Property Rights, the UN and the Global Politics of the Internet......Page 175
6.3 Health Traditions in Kerala and Local Intellectual Property Rights......Page 178
Part VII: The Digital Commons......Page 182
7 Socrates Back on the Street: Wikipedia\'s Citing of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy......Page 184
7.1 The Challenges of Digitally Mapping Marginal Sub-Regions and Localities: A Case Study of South India......Page 199
7.2 How Open Source Software and Wireless Networks are Transforming Two Cultures: An Investigation in Urban North America and Rural Africa......Page 202
7.3 The Secrets of Biblioland: A Case Study......Page 204
Part VIII: New Infrastructures of Science......Page 206
8 Towards a Science 2.0 based on Technologies of Recommendation, Innovation, and Reuse......Page 208
8.1 Democratizing the Science of Risk Management – An End-User-Driven Approach to Managing Risks to Drinking Water Systems in First Nations Communities......Page 222
8.2 The Public Debate on Science and Technology: Transgenic Corn in Mexico......Page 225
8.3 Evolving Publishing Practices in Mathematics: Wiles, Perelman, and arXiv......Page 228
Part IX: Digital Aesthetics......Page 232
9 Fabrication......Page 234
9.1 Closing the Gap between Art and Life: Digital Art as Discursive Framework......Page 246
9.2 Digital Art: Blowing Zen in the City......Page 248
9.3 Digital Aesthetics in Everyday Technologies: A Case Study of the NY Art Beat iPhone Application......Page 250
Part X: Digital Labor......Page 252
10 Redrawing the Labor Line: Technology and Work in Digital Capitalism......Page 254
10.1 Work and Skills in the Telecommunications Industry......Page 272
10.2 US Policy Approaches to Digital Labor......Page 274
10.3 Employability and Sustainability in the Graduate Job Market: A Case Study of ICT Graduates in Malaysia......Page 277
Part XI: Technology, Culture, and Society......Page 280
11 The Empirical Case for Taking a Technosocial Approach to Computing......Page 282
11.1 The Punjab Peasant and Digital Culture......Page 297
11.2 Social Ecology of Museums in the Digital Domain......Page 299
11.3 Information Technology and the Construction of Moral Reasoning, Empathy, and Affect: Crossing Time, Space, and Attitudes in Virtual Reality......Page 301
Part XII: Digital Identities......Page 304
12 The Internet, Gender and Identity: Proletarianization as Selective Essentialism......Page 306
12.1 Virtual Glass Houses: The Process and Politics of Bisexual Identity Discussions in Online Diary Communities......Page 320
12.2 UsMob: Remapping Indigenous Futures in Cyberspace......Page 323
12.3 Gender Structure, Gender Identity, Gender Symbolism and Information Technologies......Page 325
Part XIII: Information Globalism......Page 330
13 Digital Capitalism and Development: The Unbearable Lightness of ICT4D......Page 332
13.1 Information and Communication Technologies for Least Developed Countries: A Case Study of the Republic of Malawi......Page 351
13.2 Dot.Com Marriages in India: Examining the Changing Patterns of the Arranged Marriage Market in India......Page 354
13.3 Bridging the Digital Divide in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Bangladesh and Kuwait......Page 357
Part XIV: Reading Machines......Page 362
14 Do E-Book Readers Understand Digital Documents?......Page 364
14.1 In Praise of Paper: Cultural Prejudice and the Electronic Book Market in Spain......Page 379
14.2 Why E-Readers Will Not Gain Widespread Popularity......Page 382
14.3 Hyperactive: The Digi-Novel......Page 386
Conclusion......Page 390
Mapping Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society......Page 392
Index......Page 396