Informing Digital Futures Strategies for Citizen Engagement /

• Main Authors: Damodaran, Leela (Author), Olphert, Wendy (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 37
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Multimedia information systems.; Application software.; Computers and civilization.; Graphic design.; Computer Science.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Models and Principles.; Multimedia Information Systems.; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences.; Computers and Society.; Interaction Design.

In the present digital revolution we often seem trapped in a Kafkaesque world of technological advances, some desired, some disliked or even feared, which we cannot influence but must accept. This book discusses the urgent need to redress this situation. The authors argue that technologies succeed o...