Product Description: In Buy It Now, Michele White examines eBay and its emphasis on community and social norms, revealing the cultural assumptions about gender, race, and sexuality that are reinforced throughout the site. She shows how instructional texts, rule systems, and advertisements “configure the user,” allowing eBay to indicate how the site is supposed to function while also upholding particular values and practices...read more

Product Description: The first book to market on the hottest topic on the webSocial commerce is the new buzz word and this book will be the first to cut through the hype and tell you exactly what it all means... and how to do it. Social media has moved on, it's not enough to just be engaging your customers in fun chit-chat, now you can sell to them directly through their favourite social media platform...read more

'This book explores the social implications and challenges of E-Business and E-Commerce regarding social inclusion and exclusion, the social shaping of e-business technologies, the changing nature and patterns of work and social activities, and online identity, security, risks, trust and privacy. It also explores the applications of E-Business technologies and principles in non-business activities and the challenges involved'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: The continued growth of Internet-based technologies and the increasing emergence of mobile and wireless high-speed access dramatically affects the ways in which we work, learn, communicate, play and even govern our society. The constant availability of information and communication changes our views of our self and the social rules that govern our world...read more

Product Description: There is substantial interest in research in developing countries, especially in the use, implementation and development of information technology and systems. Many researchers have been moving toward an understanding of indigenous social and cultural structures and how they influence the use and development of information systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

The future of computing-the future of businessRapid technological innovation is moving us towards a world of ubiquitous computing-a world in which we are surrounded by smart machines that are always on, always aware, and always monitoring us. These developments will create a world virtually without secrets in which information is widely available and analyzable worldwide. This environment will certainly affect business, government, and the individual alike, dramatically affecting the way organizations and individuals interact. This book explores the implications of the coming world and suggests and explores policy options that can protect individuals and organizations from exploitation and safeguard the implicit contract between employees, businesses, and society itself. World Without Secrets casts an unflinching eye on a future we may not necessarily desire, but will experience. (view table of contents)

Identifying and explaining the paradigm shift in American business, the author of The End of Work and The Biotech Century shows how ownership of property is giving way to accessing experiences as the key to power in business. 50,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Identifying and explaining the paradigm shift in American business, the author of The End of Work and The Biotech Century shows how ownership of property is giving way to accessing experiences as the key to power in business. Reprint. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Lists ninety-five ideas about customer-business interactions over the Internet, and explains how businesses must adjust

Product Description: Cyberspace not only exemplifies but spearheads the greater political economy of which it has become such a critical part. The networks that comprise cyberspace were originally created at the behest of government agencies, military contractors, and allied educational institutions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)