The Information Society 2006: Vol 22 Table of Contents

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ISSN: 0197-2243
The Information Society
An International Journal
Harmeet Sawhney, Editor-in-Chief
Routledge
Taylor & Francis Group
The Information Society
AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DEPUTY EDITOR FORMER EDITORS
Harmeet Sawhney Roberta Lamb Joseph Becker
Department of Telecommunications, Department of Informatics, 1981-1991]
indiana University, Bloomington University of California,
Irvine Robert H. Anderson
MANAGING EDITOR BOOK REVIEW EDITOR 1992-1994
Wayne Buente Katherine Clodfelter
School of Library and Information Science, School of Library and Information Science, Rob Kling
Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana University, Bloomington 1995-2003
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Phil Agre Robert Horwitz Milton Mueller
University of California, Los Angeles University of California, San Diego Syracuse University
William Aspray Suzanne Iacono Christine Ogan
Indiana University National Science Foundation Indiana University
Chrisanthi Avgerou Jannis Kallinikos Mark Poster
London School of Economics London School of Economics University of California, Irvine
Nancy Baym Helena Karsten Serge Proulx
University of Kansas University of Turku, Finland University of Quebec
Bruce Bimber Kenneth Kraemer Priscilla M. Regan
University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Irvine George Mason University
Christine Borgman Leah Lievrouw Paul Resnick
University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles University of Michigan
Geoffrey Bowker Rich Ling Sundeep Sahay
Santa Clara University Telenor R&D, Norway University of Oslo, Norway
Erik Bucy Claudia Loebbecke Steve Sawyer
Indiana University University of Cologne, Germany Pennsylvania State University
Karen Coyle "David Lyon : Harry Scarbrough
University of California System Queen’s University, Canada University of Warwick, United Kingdom
Lorrie Cranor Robin Mansell Sharon Strover
Carnegie Mellon University London School of Economics University of Texas
Mary Culnan Gary T. Marx Shu-Fen Tseng
Bentley College Massachusetts Intitute of Technology Yuan Ze University, Taiwan
Greg Elmer Richard O. Mason Peter van den Besselaar
Ryerson University, Canada Southern Methodist University Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Leopoldina Fortunati Stephen D. McDowell . Sciences, The Netherlands
University of Udine, Italy Florida State University Rick Weingarten
Richard Heeks Eric Monteiro Computing Research Association and
University of Manchester, United NTNU, Norway American Library Association
Kingdom ‘ Rolf Wigand
Susan Herring University of Arkansas
Indiana University
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September 2006
The Information Society
Volume 22 Table of Contents
Volume 22, Issue 1 Volume 22, Issue 2
ARTICLES ARTICLES
Impact and Sustainability of E-Government Services in Developing Participation, Remediation, Bricolage: Considering Principal
Countries: Lessons Learned from Tamil Nadu, India Components of a Digital Culture
Rajendra Kumar and Michael L. Best Mark Deuze
Access to Public-Sector Information in Europe: Policy, Rights, Boundary Objects with Agency: A Method for Studying the
and Obligations Design—Use Interface
Michael Blakemore and Max Craglia Kenneth R. Fleischmann
Focused Activities and the Development of Social Capital The Role of Learning-by-Using in the Design of Health Care
in a Distributed Learning “Community” Technologies: A Case Study
Y. Connie Yuan, Geri Gay, and Helene Hembrooke Sampsa Hyysalo
PERSPECTIVE The Internet and Daily Life in Australia: An Exploration
Dirk H. R. Spennemann
Is Korea a Strong Internet Nation?
Pyungho Kim PERSPECTIVE
Internet Galaxy Meets Postnational Constellation: Prospects for Xerox Project: Photocopy Machines as a Metaphor for an
Political Solidarity After the Internet “Open Society”
Catherine Frost Endre Danyi
BOOK REVIEWS REVIEW ESSAY
The Information Revolution and Developing Countries, by Ernest J. An Informational versus Network Perspective on the
Wilson III. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004. xiv + 431 pp. $49.95 Information Society
(cloth). ISBN 0-262-23230-8. Pernilla Gripenberg
Reviewed by Jennifer Bussell
Social Thinking—Software Practice, edited by Yvonne Dittrich,
Christiane Floyd, and Ralf Klischewski. Cambridge, MA: MIT
Press, 2002. xii + 481 pp. $60.00 (cloth). ISBN 0-262-04204-5.
Reviewed by Lisa Covi
Computer Mediated Communication: Social Interaction and the
Internet, by Crispin Thurlow, Laura Lengel, and Alice Tomic.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2004. vii + 256 pp. $39.95 (paper).
ISBN 0761949542.
Reviewed by John Monberg
Mediating the Human Body: Technology, Communication, and
Fashion, edited by Leopoldina Fortunati, James E. Katz, and
Raimonda Riccini. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
2004. xix + 230 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN 0-8058-4418-3 .
Reviewed by Lisa Jean Moore
Addressing the World: National Identity and Internet Country Code
Domains, by Erika Schlesinger Wass. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2003. 160 pp. $22.95 (paper). ISBN 0-742-52810-3.
Reviewed by Sharon Strover
Information Systems and Global Diversity, by Chrisanthi Avgerou.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. 267 pp. $89.50
(cloth)/$29.50 (paper). ISBN 0199263426.
Reviewed by Michael Tyworth
Volume 22, Issue 3 Volume 22, Issue 4
Special Issue: ICT in Everyday Life: Home and Personal
ARTICLES Environments
Guest Editor: Alladi Venkatesh
Optimization and Its Alternative in Media Choice: A Model of
Reliance on Social-Influence Processes
INTRODUCTION
Bairj Donabedian
Introduction to the Special Issue on “ICT in Everyday Life: Home
The Quality of Online and Offline Relationships: The Role of
and Personal Environments”
Multiplexity and Duration of Social Relationships
Gustavo Mesch and Ilan Talmud Alladi Venkatesh
ARTICLES
A Global Investigation of Granger Causality between Information
Infrastructure Investment and Service-Sector Growth The Contribution of Domestication Research to In-Home Computing
Pratim Datta and Victor W. Mbarika and Media Consumption
Leslie Haddon
PERSPECTIVE
Household Technology Use: Integrating Household Life Cycle and
New Barbarians at the Gate: The New Spirit Emerging in India
the Model of Adoption of Technology in Households
Ian O. Angell and Jonathan Ezer
Susan A. Brown, Viswanath Venkatesh, and Hillol Bala
Collective Consuming: Consumers as Subcontractors in Electronic
Drawing Conclusions from New Media Research: Reflections and
Markets
Puzzles Regarding Children’s Experience of the Internet
Wilfred Dolfsma
Sonia Livingstone
BOOK REVIEWS
Gender and IT in the Household: Evolving Patterns of Internet Use in
Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution the United States
of Political Power, by Bruce Bimber. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Ruby Roy Dholakia
University Press, 2003. xv + 268 pp. $22.00 (paper). ISBN
0-52180-492-2. Controlling Smart Devices in the Home
Reviewed by Alice Robbin Lynne Hamill
The Information Ecology of E-Government: E-Government as PERSPECTIVE
Institutional and Technological Innovation in Public Administration, The Changing World of Home Technology: A Microsoft Case Study
edited by Victor Bekkers and Vincent Homburg. Amsterdam: IOS Pam Heath and Nancy Bell
Press, 2005. xi + 193 pp. $99 (cloth). ISBN 1-58603-483-9.
Reviewed by Kris Snijkers
Building Diaspora: Filipino Cultural Community Formation on the
Internet, by Emily Noelle Ignacio. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers
University Press, 2005. xvi + 176 pp. $21.95 (paper). ISBN
0-8135-3514-X.
Reviewed by Loong Wong
Volume 22, Issue 5 Broadband Utilization in Space: Effects of Population and
Economic Structure
Special Section: Towards a Coherent Metrology of Information John B. Horrigan, Chandler Stolp, and Robert H. Wilson
Societies
Guest Editor: Michel J. Menou PERSPECTIVE
Where Information Society and Community Voice Intersect
A “Grand Challenge”: Measuring Information Societies Ramesh Srinivasan
Michel J. Menou and Richard D. Tayler
ARTICLES BOOK REVIEWS
Gaps and Bits: Conceptualizing Measurements for Digital Divide/s Knowledge Power: Intellectual Property, Information, and Privacy,
Karine Barzilai-Nahon by Renée Marlin-Bennett. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers,
2004. xii + 274 pp. $59.95 cloth/$23.50 paper. ISBN
Methodological Challenges of Digital Divide Measurements 1-58826-281-2.
Vasja Vehovar, Pavle Sicherl, Tobias Hiising, and Vesna Dolnicar Reviewed by Ian Hosein
Conceptualizing and Measuring the Social Uses of the Internet: The The Information Revolution & Ireland: Prospects and Challenges,
Case of Personal Web Sites by Lee Komito. Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2004. ix
Gregor Petri¢é + 222 pp. $35.95 (paper). ISBN 1-904558-07-0.
Reviewed by Eileen M. Trauth
PERSPECTIVE
Exploring Social Theory as a Framework for Social and Cultural Information and Communication Technology in Organizations:
Measurements of the Information Society Adoption, Implementation, Use and Effects, by Harry Bouwman,
Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt Bart van den Hooff, Lidwien van de Wijngaert, and Jan van Dijk.
London: Sage Publications, 2005. xiv + 223 pp. $37.95 (paper).
ISBN 1412900905.
ARTICLES Reviewed by Emmanuelle Vaast
Always Articulating: Theorizing on Mobile and Wireless Following Page 372
Technologies Title Page to Volume 22
Steve Sawyer and Andrea Tapia Table of Contents to Volume 22
Author Index to Volume 22
Power, Cash, and Convenience: Translations in the Political Site of
the ATM
Lucas D. Introna and Louise Whittaker