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Social Capital and Information Technology

Huysman, Marleen (contributor); Wulf, Volker (contributor) - The MIT Press

The concept of social capital, or the value that can be derived from social ties created by goodwill, mutual support, shared language, common beliefs, and a sense of mutual obligation, has been applied to a number of fields, from sociology to management. It is only lately, however, that...

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The Weightless World: Strategies for Managing the Digital Economy

Coyle, Diane - The MIT Press

The Weightless World is the first book to map an economic world that has been turned upside down by digital technology and global business. How will our careers, businesses, and governments change in a world where bytes are the only currency and where the goods that shape our lives—global...

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Patents, Citations, and Innovations: A Window on the Knowledge Economy

Jaffe, Adam B.; Trajtenberg, Manuel - The MIT Press

Innovation and technological change, long recognized as the main drivers of long-term economic growth, are elusive … research on the economics of innovation. Patent records contain a wealth of information, including the inventors' identity …

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Beyond the Desktop Metaphor: Designing Integrated Digital Work Environments

Kaptelinin, Victor (contributor); … - The MIT Press

The computer's metaphorical desktop, with its onscreen windows and hierarchy of folders, is the only digital work environment most users and designers have ever known. Yet empirical studies show that the traditional desktop design does not provide sufficient support for today's real-life tasks...

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The Internet Edge: Social, Technical, and Legal Challenges for a Networked World

Stefik, Mark - The MIT Press

Sometimes when we face change, we feel conflicting forces driving us forward and pulling us back. This place of tension and confusion can be called an "edge." The "Internet edge" is our collective struggle to change as the world becomes more connected. Turmoil at the Internet edge occurs around...

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Democratizing Innovation

Hippel, Eric von - The MIT Press

Innovation is rapidly becoming democratized. Users, aided by improvements in computer and communications technology … their innovations with others, creating user-innovation communities and a rich intellectual commons. In Democratizing … Innovation, Eric von Hippel looks closely at this emerging system of user-centered innovation. He explains why and when users …

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The Sciences of the Artificial, 3rd Edition

Simon, Herbert A. - The MIT Press

Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools—chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms—for analyzing complexity...

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Living in a Material World: Economic Sociology Meets Science and Technology Studies

Pinch, Trevor (contributor); Swedberg, Richard (contributor) - The MIT Press

Although social scientists generally agree that technology plays a major role in the economy, economics and technology have yet to be brought together into a coherent framework that is both analytically interesting and empirically oriented. This book draws on the tools of science and technology...

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Communications Under the Seas: The Evolving Cable Network and Its Implications

Finn, Bernard (contributor); Yang, Daqing (contributor) - The MIT Press

By the end of the twentieth century, fiber-optic technology had made possible a worldwide communications system of breathtaking speed and capacity. This amazing network is the latest evolution of communications technologies that began with undersea telegraph cables in the 1850s and continued...

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In the Bubble: Designing in a Complex World

Thackara, John - The MIT Press

radical innovation already emerging in daily life. We are regaining respect for what people can do that technology can't. In … and responsibility can inform design decisions without impeding social and technical innovation. …

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