The Digital City: The American Metropolis and Information Technology

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
The digital city......Page 16
Research setting......Page 17
Outline of the chapters......Page 19
1 IT as Process and Globalization as Outcome......Page 22
The digital identity of the city......Page 24
IT and the city: Approaches and interpretations......Page 25
Information technology, globalization, and the city......Page 30
The IT network infrastructure of globalization......Page 33
The globalization of the digital city......Page 37
Conclusion......Page 38
2 Teleworkers and Telemanagers: IT and Telecommuting in the Digital City......Page 40
Telecommuting......Page 41
The physical and social fragmentation of the workplace......Page 44
The destructuring and dissemination of work time......Page 58
Teleworkers and telemanagers: Reconfiguring labor relations......Page 63
Strategies for the digital workplace......Page 72
Partial digital decentralization/centralization......Page 76
Telecommuting and globalization......Page 77
Conclusion......Page 79
Theoretical conceptualizations of the digital office......Page 81
The parameters of the digital office......Page 84
Project-induced virtuality......Page 87
Workplace expansion......Page 89
Virtual communication......Page 92
Surveillance and control......Page 94
The pace of digital work......Page 97
What happens when the computers break down?......Page 98
The transformative role of IT......Page 104
Conclusion......Page 110
4 Virtual City Hall: The Governance of Local E-Government......Page 112
A history of a virtual city hall......Page 114
The micropolitics of city hall\'s Web sites......Page 119
The content and structure of the digital city on the Web......Page 124
Communicating with the citizenry......Page 130
Limits of the Web for democratic practices......Page 135
Digitization and globalization......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 138
5 Virtual Diasporas and Cyberspace......Page 140
Virtual immigration......Page 141
The virtual diaspora......Page 143
Virtual diasporic space as networked space......Page 148
Virtual diasporic space and transnational politics......Page 150
Virtual diasporic space: The Silicon Valley and Port-au-Prince circuit......Page 154
Conclusion......Page 155
6 Virtual Time: The Processuality of the Cyberweek......Page 158
Virtual time and the cyberweek......Page 159
The collapse of temporal boundaries......Page 162
Cybertiming the civil week......Page 164
Flextiming the civil week......Page 167
Behavioral decoupling of time zones......Page 169
Temporal unevenness......Page 172
Real-time schedules and virtual time......Page 173
Synchronized and desynchronized connectivity......Page 175
Conclusion......Page 176
7 Conclusion: The Digital City as the Virtual Embodiment of the Global City......Page 178
Global digital practices of the city......Page 179
The global and virtual fragmentation of the city......Page 184
The virtual embodiment of the global city......Page 186
Notes......Page 187
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