E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet: Power, Influence, and Social Change

Celia Romm Livermore (Wayne State University, USA)

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ISBN13: 9781466609662

EISBN13: 9781466609679

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-0966-2

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Technological advancements have always influenced politics in society, but never in as strong and direct a manner as in the Internet Age.

E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet: Power, Influence, and Social Change charts this influence and describes the unique effect electronic communication has on organizations, communities, nations, and cultures. This book presents the most current research on both the history of these powerful new tools and their preliminary impact both in across the world and in daily life. A thorough understanding of these technologies is necessary to properly navigate this new millennium and this reference is the beginning of that knowledge.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

Citizen Participation
Cultural Change
ERP implementation
Global Politics
Grassroots movements
Media Control
Politics of Image
Social Networking Economy
User Participation
Youth and E-Politics

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Dr. Celia Romm Livermore is Professor at Wayne State University and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of E-Politics (IJEP). She published seven books: Virtual Politicking (1999), Electronic Commerce: A Global Perspective (1998), Doing Business on the Internet (1999), Self-Service on the Internet (2008), Social Networking Communities and eDating Services (2008), Gender and Social Computing: Interactions, Differences and Relationships (2011), and E-Politics and Organizational Implications of the Internet: Power, Influence and Social Change (2012), and over 200 journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Her research was published in The Harvard Business Review, Communications of the ACM, Information & Management, Transactions on Information Systems and other journals.

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