A137.
Rice,
R. E., Yates,
S. J., & Blejmar, J. (2020). Chapter
1. Introduction to the Oxford
handbook of digital technology and
society: Terms, domains, and themes. In S. J. Yates & R. E.
Rice (Eds.),
The Oxford handbook of digital technology
and society (pp. 3-36). New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
This
chapter summarizes the main themes associated with relationships
between
digital technology and society. It first
proposes four central characteristics of digital technology that
differentiate
this concept from the more general term “information society”. Then it maps the growth of the use of terms
associated with digital technology in articles in academic databases
from 1972
through 2018, and in books from 1967 through 2008. However, the main
focus is
on summarizing the emergent themes associated with 89 recent books on
digital
technology society: A) Theory and conceptualization of this vast social
change,
B) Technology (venues and characteristics), C) Issues (content,
creation; big
data; civic issues; participation, engagement; inclusion, exclusion,
discrimination; ethics, ethical issues; and managing the digital
experience), D)
Contexts (digitization of self and others; health; relationships; user
groups;
culture, everyday life, education, learning; work and organizations;
and law,
policy, regulation), and E) Effects (negative; positive; societal;
contradictions, paradoxes, tensions, unintended). Finally, it describes
to
origins and motivations for this Handbook and its main Themes.
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