ICT Books

New and Published Books

1. The FRBR Family of Conceptual Models

   Toward a Linked Bibliographic Future

   Edited by Richard P. Smiraglia, Pat Riva, Maja Žumer

   Since 1998 when FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) was first published by IFLA, the effort to develop and apply FRBR has been extended in many innovative and experimental directions. Papers in this volume explain and expand upon the extended family of FRBR models including...

   Published May 6th 2013 by Routledge
2. Digital Development in Korea

   Building an Information Society

   By Myung Oh, James Larson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Korean Studies

   This book explores the role of digital information and communications technology in South Korea’s development, starting with and building upon the crucial developments of the 1980s. Its perspective draws on the information society concept and on a conceptual model of strategic restructuring of...

   Published April 29th 2013 by Routledge
3. Cyberspace Law

   Censorship and Regulation of the Internet

   Edited by Hannibal Travis

   This book explores what the American Civil Liberties Union calls the "third era" in cyberspace, in which filters "fundamentally alter the architectural structure of the Internet, with significant implications for free speech." Although courts and nongovernmental organizations increasingly insist...

   Published April 24th 2013 by Routledge
4. Online@AsiaPacific

   Mobile, Social and Locative Media in the Asia–Pacific

   By Larissa Hjorth, Michael Arnold

   Series: Asia's Transformations/Asia.com

   Media across the Asia-Pacific region are at once social, locative and mobile. Social in that these media facilitate public and interpersonal interaction, locative in that this social communication is geographically placed, and mobile in so much as the media is ever-present. The Asia–Pacific region...

   Published March 17th 2013 by Routledge
5. E-Participation in Southern Europe and the Balkans

   Issues of Democracy and Participation Via Electronic Media

   Edited by Euripidis Loukis, Ann Macintosh, Yannis Charalabidis

   The rapid development and the growing penetration of information and communication technologies (ICT) provide tremendous opportunities for a wide and cost effective application of the ideas of participative democracy and public participation in government decision and policy making. ICT can drive...

   Published September 19th 2012 by Routledge
6. New Developments in Online Marketing

   Edited by Stephen Tagg, Alan Stevenson, Tiziano Vescovi

   Series: Key Issues in Marketing Management

   There can be little doubt about the profound impact that the Internet has had on all aspects of business over the past decade. Indeed, it is now widely accepted that we have entered a new and even more revolutionary phase in the development of the Net as a global marketing and communications...

   Published June 14th 2012 by Routledge
7. Mobile Communication and Greater China

   Edited by Rodney Wai-chi Chu, Leopoldina Fortunati, Pui-Lam Law, Shanhua Yang

   Series: Routledge Research on Social Work, Social Policy and Social Development in Greater China

   This edited volume is the first book-length study focusing entirely on mobile phone use in China. Drawing on examples from a wide range of contemporary situations in China and beyond, the contributors argue that the mobile phone is in fact an important means by which one can understand a rapidly...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
8. eHealth Applications

   Promising Strategies for Behavior Change

   Edited by Seth M. Noar, Nancy Grant Harrington

   Series: Routledge Communication Series

   eHealth Applications: Promising Strategies for Behavior Change provides an overview of technological applications in contemporary health communication research, exploring the history and current uses of eHealth applications in disease prevention and management. This volume focuses on the use of...

   Published March 7th 2012 by Routledge
9. Learning Theory and Online Technologies

   By Linda Harasim

   Learning Theory and Online Technologies offers a powerful overview of the current state of elearning, a foundation of its historical roots and growth, and a framework for distinguishing among the major approaches to elearning. It effectively addresses pedagogy (how to design an effective online...

   Published August 15th 2011 by Routledge
10. Internet and Society

    Social Theory in the Information Age

    By Christian Fuchs

    Series: Routledge Research in Information Technology and Society

    In this exceptional study, Christian Fuchs discusses how the internet has transformed the lives of human beings and social relationships in contemporary society. By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, he demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political, and...

    Published January 5th 2011 by Routledge