Governing Through Technology: Information Artefacts and Social Practice

by Jannis Kallinikos

Overview

Information produced and disseminated by an interlocking ecology of computer-based systems and artifacts currently provides the essential means for planning organizational operations and controlling organizational performances. This book describes the vital importance that digital information acquires in restructuring organizations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781349327898
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/19/2015
Series:	Technology, Work and Globalization
Edition description:	1st ed. 2011
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

JANNIS KALLINIKOS is professor in the Department of Management at the London School of Economics, UK. His current research focuses on the study of technological information in all its forms (text, voice, image) and digital formats and the implications its diffusion carries for organizations and institutions.

Table of Contents

Technology as an Object of Social Enquiry The Regulative Regime of Technology Boundaries and Freedoms: Re-opening the Black Box of Technology Deconstructing Information Packages: Efficiency versus Governance Control and Complexity in a Connected World Cognitive Foundations of Work: The Workplace as Information Information Tokens and Reality: A Parable of the Internet