Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing.

Computerization Movements and Technology Diffusion

: From Mainframes to Ubiquitous Computing. 

By Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer, Information Today, 2008,

Table of Contents 

1. Part I: Introduction
2. Part II: Productivity
3. Part III: Democratization
4. Part IV: Death of Distance
5. Part V: Freedom and Information Rights
6. Part VI: Ubiquitous Computing
7. Part VII Conclusion
8. References
9. Author Details

pt. I. Introduction --

1. Computerization movements and the diffusion of technological innovations / Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer --
2. Reprints of seminal research papers on computerization movements --
Paper 1. Computerization movements and the mobilization of support for computerization / Rob Kling and Suzanne Iacono --
Paper 2. Computerization movements : the rise of the Internet and distant forms of work / Suzanne Iacono and Rob Kling --

pt. II. Productivity --

3. The computerization movement in the U.S. home mortgage industry : automated underwriting from 1980 to 2004 / M. Lynne Markus ... [et al.] --
4. Visions of the next big thing : computerization movements and the mobilization of support for new technologies / Jonathan P. Allen --
5. Framing the photographs : understanding digital photography as a computerization movement / Eric T. Meyer --

pt. III. Democratization --

6. From the computerization movement to computerization : communication networks in a high-tech organization / Anabel Quan-Haase and Barry Wellman --
7. Internetworking in the small / John M. Carroll --
8. Online communities : infrastructure, relational cohesion, and sustainability / Mary J. Culnan --

pt. IV. Death of distance --

9. Virtual teams : high-tech rhetoric and low-tech experience / Sara Kiesler ... [et al.] --
10. Large-scale distributed collaboration : tension in a new interaction order / Gloria Mark --
11. Examining the proliferation of intranets / Roberta Lamb and Mark Poster --

pt. V. Freedom and information rights --

12. Information/communication rights as a new environmentalism? : core environmental concepts for linking rights-oriented computerization movements / Andrew Clement and Christie Hurrell --
13. Examining the success of computerization movements in the ubiquitous computing era : free and open source software movements / Margaret S. Elliott --
14. Emerging patterns of intersection and segmentation when computerization movements interact / Walt Scacchi --
15. Seeking reliability in freedom : the case of F/OSS / Hamid R. Ekbia and Les Gasser --
16. Movement ideology vs. user pragmatism in the organizational adoption of open source software / Jason Dedrick and Joel West --

pt. VI. Ubiquitous computing --

17. The professional's everyday struggle with ubiquitous computing / Carsten Sørensen and David Gibson --
18. Politics of design : next-generation computational environments / Mark S. Ackerman --
19. Social movements shaping the Internet : the outcome of an ecology of games / William Dutton --

pt. VII. Conclusion --

20. Comparative perspective on computerization movements : implications for ubiquitous computing / Margaret S. Elliott and Kenneth L. Kraemer.