Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
ISBN: 978-1-60566-264-0; 1,034 pp; March 2009
Published under the imprint Information Science Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference)
http://www.igi-global.com/reference/details.asp?ID=33019
Edited by: Brian Whitworth, Massey University, New Zealand and Aldo de Moor, CommunitySense, The Netherlands
DESCRIPTION
The focus of this book is not how to make technology more efficient, nor even how technology harms or helps society, but rather how to successfully combine society and technology into socio-technical performance.
The Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems provides a state-of-the-art summary of knowledge in this evolving, multi-disciplinary field distinctive in its variety of international authors’ perspectives, depth and breadth of scholarship, and combination of practical and theoretical views. This noteworthy Handbook of Research extends a useful collection for anyone interested in modern socio-technincal systems where knowledge of social principles can mean the difference between success and failure.
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