GUIDELINES FOR REVIEWERS -- The Information Society
The Information Society, published since 1981, is a key forum for thoughtful analysis of the
impacts, policies, system concepts, methodologies and cultural change related to information
technology and social change. Its audiences include policy- and decision-makers and scientists in
government, industry and education; managers concerned with the effects of the information
revolution on individuals, organizations and society; and scholars with an interest in the
relationship between information technologies, social/organizational life, and social change.
Good articles for The Information Society deepen our understanding of important issues
through new data, theories or compelling analyses. They are anchored in strong
scholarship, but are also written so they are accessible to non-specialists. The review packet
includes a list of articles published in some recent issues. Please visit our website if you would
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it should be published (perhaps with revisions), and with suggestions that will help the author
understand how to alter the article, if necessary. Please send the Associate Editor a report that
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specialized topic and to TIS readers, as well as any intellectual or stylistic problems that must be
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Table of Contents – Volumes 24 (2008)
Vol. 24, No. 1
ARTICLES
Consumer Benefits of Public Services over FTTH in Japan: Comparative Analysis of Provincial and Urban Areas by
Using Discrete Choice Experiment
Takanori Ida and Yuki Horiguchi
Search engines as substitutes for traditional information sources? An investigation of media choice
Natalie Kink and Thomas Hess
Mediating Voices: Community Participation in the Design of E-Enabled Community Care Services
Bridgette Wessels, Sarah Walsh, and Elaine Adam
PERSPECTIVE
Global Freedom of Expression within Non-Textual Frameworks
Johnny Hartz Søraker
Remembering Things
Michael Arnold, Christopher Shepherd, and Martin Gibbs
Digital Divide Complacency: Misconceptions and Dangers
Jeffrey James
REVIEW ESSAYS
Next Steps in Digital Studies, Resignifying Culture, Community, and Code
Matt Ratto
Social Thinking--Software Practice, edited by Yvonne Dittrich, Christiane Floyd, and Ralf Klischewski. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2002. xii + 481 pp., $60.00 cloth. ISBN 0-262-04204-5.
Reviewed by Lisa Covi
Privacy Protection in the Network Society: “Trading Up” or a “Race to the Bottom”?
Michael Zimmer
Vol. 24, No. 2
ARTICLES
IBM’s Chess Players: On AI and its Supplements
Brian P. Bloomfield and Theo Vurdubakis
Mobilising poverty? Mobile phone use and everyday spatial mobility among low income families in Santiago, Chile
Sebastian Ureta
Information and Communication Technologies for Development: The Bottom of the Pyramid Model in Practice
Renee Kuriyan, Isha Ray, and Kentaro Toyama
Instant Messaging on Campus: Use and Integration in University Students’ Everyday Communication
Anabel Quan-Haase
PERSPECTIVE
Wind, Water, and Wi-Fi: New Trends in Community Informatics and Disaster Management
Kalpana Shankar
BOOK REVIEWS
The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change, by Jannis Kallinikos.
Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2006. $35.00 paper/$95.00 cloth. ISBN 978 1 84720 500 1 paper/978 1 84542 328
5 cloth.
Reviewed by Hamid R. Ekbia
Global E-Commerce: Impacts of National Environment and Policy, edited by Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason Dedrick,
Nigel P. Melville, and Kevin Zhu. Cambridge University Press, 2006. xxii + 444 pp. $75.00 cloth. ISBN 0-52184822-9.
Reviewed by Thomas R Leinbach
The New Argonauts: Regional Advantage in a Global Economy, by AnnaLee Saxenian. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2006. 432 pp. $27.95 cloth. ISBN 978-0-674-02566-0 paper/978-0-674-02201-0 cloth.
Reviewed by Yong Jin Park
Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology, edited by Eileen M. Trauth. Hershey, PA: The Idea Group,
2006. 1451 pp. $525.00 cloth. ISBN: 1-59140-815-6.
Reviewed by Rhoda Reddock, Deborah McFee, and Cathy Ann Radix
Virtual Methods: Issues in Social Research on the Internet, by Christine Hine. New York: Berg Publishers, 2005.
xiii + 242 pp., $28.95 paper. ISBN 1845200853.
Reviewed by Venkata Ratnadeep Suri
Vol. 24, No. 3
Special Issue: Mobile Societies in Asia-Pacific Guest Editors: Leopoldina Fortunati, Francis Lee, and Angel
Lin
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to the Special Issue on “Mobile Societies in Asia-Pacific”
Leopoldina Fortunati, Francis Lee, and Angel Lin
ARTICLES
Research Approaches to Mobile Use in the Developing World: A Review of the Literature
Jonathan Donner
Sex, Cannibals and the Language of Cool: Indonesian Tales of the Phone and Modernity
Bart Barendregt
Reorienting the Mobile: Australasian Imaginaries
Gerard Goggin
PERSPECTIVE
SMS in China: A major Carrier of the Non-official Discourse Universe
Zhou He
BOOK REVIEWS
Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS, edited by Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier.
Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2006. 215 pp., $39.95 cloth. ISBN 1841501336.
Reviewed by Daniel Bicknell
Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics, by Wendy Hui Kyong Chun. Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press, 2006. x + 352 pp., $37.50/£24.95 cloth. ISBN 0-262-03332-1.
Reviewed by David Parisi
Dangerous Enthusiasms: E-government, Computer Failure, and Information System Development, by Robin Gauld
and Shaun Goldfinch. Dunedin (N.Z.): Otago University Press, 2006. 160pp. $39.95 paper. ISBN-13 978 1 877372
34 6.
Reviewed by Bryan Pfaffenberger
Vol. 24, No. 4
ARTICLES
Parameters for Software Piracy Research
Clyde W. Holsapple, Deepak Iyengar, Haihao Jin, and Shashank Rao
The Persistence of Information Structures in Nordic Countries
Pekka Räsänen
Revising the Conceptualization of Computerization Movements
Noriko Hara, and Howard Rosenbaum
PERSPECTIVE
Trends in digital music archiving
Patrick Burkart
Welsh Without Frontiers? Use of the Community Metaphor in Wales' Sponsored Top Level Domain Bid
Courtenay Honeycutt
REVIEW ESSAYS
Minding the Galison Gap
Elisabeth Davenport
DRM as Socio-Technical Systems
Kristin Eschenfelder
Questioning the 'crime' in cybercrime
Salvatore Poier
Vol. 24, No. 5
ARTICLES
Back to the Future: How Transportation Deregulatory Policies Foreshadow Evolution of Communications Policies
Barbara Cherry
The Diffusion of Mobile Internet in JapanMethodological Challenges of Digital Divide Measurements
Mito Akiyoshi and Hiroshi Ono
The Emergence of a Knowledge-based View of Clusters and its Implications for Cluster Governance
Marc D. Bahlmann and Marleen H. Huysman
Understanding the Role of ICT Networks in a Biotechnology Cluster: An Exploratory Study of Medicon Valley
Charles Steinfield and Ada Scupola
PERSPECTIVE
Should we be concerned that the elderly don't text?
Rich Ling
Consumer Information Requirements and Telecommunications Regulation
Patrick Xavier
BOOK REVIEWS
Governing European Communications: From Unification to Coordination, by Maria Michalis. Lanham, MD:
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, 2007. 368 pp. $39.95 paper/$95.00 cloth. ISBN paper 978-0-7391-1736-1/ISBN
cloth 978-0-7391-1735-4.
Reviewed by Itir Akdogan
Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, by Giles Slade. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard
University Press, 2007. 330 pp., $15.95 paper. ISBN 13-978-0-674-02572 (paper).
Reviewed by Abby Dress
Brave New Classrooms: Democratic Education and the Internet, edited by Joe Lockard and Mark Pegrum. New
York, NY: Peter Lang Publishing Group, 2007. X + 360 pp., $32.95 paper. ISBN 978-0-8204-8123-4.
Reviewed by Sharon Stoerger
THE INFORMATION SOCIETY
EDITORIAL BOARD
(1/11/2009)
EDITORIAL OFFICE
Editor-in-Chief:
Harmeet Sawhney, Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, IN
Managing Editor:
Wayne Buente, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, IN
Book Review Editor:
Kathryn Clodfelter, School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, IN
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Phil Agre
Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
William Aspray
School of Informatics, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN (USA)
Chrisanthi Avgerou
Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science
(UK)
Karine Barzilai-Nahon
Director, The Center for Information & Society, The Information School, University of
Washington, WA (USA)
Nancy Baym
Department of Communication Studies, University of Kansas, KS (USA)
Christine Borgman
Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Geoffrey Bowker
Center for Science, Technology and Society, Santa Clara University, CA (USA)
Erik Bucy
Department of Telecommunications, Indiana University, IN (USA)
Karen Coyle
Department of Library Automation, University of California, CA (USA)
Lorrie Cranor
School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, PA (USA)
Mary J. Culnan
Information & Process Management Department, Bentley University, MA (USA)
Greg Elmer
School of Radio TV Arts, Ryerson University (Canada)
Luciano Floridi
Fellow of St Cross College and member of the Faculty of Philosophy and of the OUCL
(Computer Science Department), University of Oxford
Leopoldina Fortunati
Department of Economics, Society, and Geography, University of Udine (Italy)
Tarleton Gillespie
Department of Communication, Cornell University, NY (USA)
Richard Heeks
Institute for Development Policy & Management, University of Manchester (UK)
Susan Herring
School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, IN (USA)
Suzanne Iacono
National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA (USA)
Jannis Kallinikos
Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics and Political Science
(UK)
Helena Karsten
Department of Information Technology, University of Turku (Finland)
Kenneth Kraemer
Center for Research on IT and Organizations (CRITO) and Graduate School of
Management, University of California, Irvine, CA (USA)
Leah Lievrouw
Department of Information Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (USA)
Rich Ling
Telenor R&D, Fornebu (Norway)
Claudia Loebbecke
Department of Media Management, University of Cologne (Germany)
David Lyon
Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Ontario (Canada)
Robin Mansell
Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics and Political
Science (UK)
Gary T. Marx
Department of Sociology, MIT, MA (USA)
Stephen D. McDowell
Department of Communication, Florida State University, FL (USA)
Michel J. Menou
School of Library, Archive, and Information Studies, University College London, (UK)
Eric Monteiro
Department of Informatics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (Norway)
Milton Mueller
School of Information Studies, Syracuse University (USA)
Christine Ogan
School of Journalism and School of Informatics, Indiana University, IN (USA)
Mark Poster
Department of History, University of California, Irvine, CA (USA)
Priscilla M. Regan
Department of Public and International Affairs, George Mason University (USA
Paul Resnick
School of Information, University of Michigan, MI (USA)
Sundeep Sahay
Department of Informatics, University of Oslo (Norway)
Christian Sandvig
Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Steve Sawyer
School of Information Studies, Syracuse University, NY (USA)
Harry Scarbrough
Warwick Business School, University of Warwick (UK)
Sharon Strover
Department of Radio-TV-Film, University of Texas, Austin, TX (USA)
Chen-Chao Tao
Department of Communication and Technology, National Chiao Tung University
(Taiwan)
Shu-Fen Tseng
Graduate School of Social Informatics, Yuan Ze University (Taiwan)
Peter van den Besselaar
Science System Assessment Department, Rathenau Institute & Amsterdam School of
Communication Research ASCOR, Department of Communication Science, University
of Amsterdam (the Netherlands)
Rolf Wigand
Department of Information Science, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR (USA)
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