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This article theorizes tech-led gentrification in San Francisco as a form of what I call, 'tech-colonialism.' Drawing on my ethnographic work with movements organizing against eviction and displacement, this article grapples with the critique from activists and protestors that gentrification and the tech-industry are 'colonizing' the city. Taking this seriously, I argue that the analytic of 'colonialism' provided San Francisco residents and activists with an important framework for political organizing, identity-making, solidarity-work, and forging belonging amidst the city's on-going 'eviction epidemic.' Beyond the discursive deployment by activists of 'colonialism' as a concept, I also trace the material continuities between historical forms of colonial dispossession and present-day tech-colonialism, in which technology companies enclose the 'commons,' operate above laws, invest surplus capital in speculative urban racialized property regimes, and treat governments themselves as outdated and archaic institutions to be 'disrupted.' Ultimately, I define tech-colonialism as the social and spatial strategies of the technology industry that operate through colonial logics of racialized dispossession and materially extend and reproduce the colonial present. [Keywords: racialized dispossession, eviction, social movements, activism, technology] [Palavras-chave: espoliacao racializada, despejos, movimentos sociais, activismo, tecnologia], [phrase omitted], Introduction: 'Conquistador Transportation' On a windy afternoon in late January 2014, a florescent-lit hearing room in San Francisco's City Hall was packed. Inside, the San Francisco Municipal Transit Authority was [...]

About ten years ago, I acquired a deep suspicion of smartphones and social media. Riding a late-night L Train back to my Brooklyn apartment, I looked up from my book [...]

While information technology benefits society in numerous ways, it unfortunately also has potential to create new vulnerabilities. This special issue intends to stimulate thought and research into understanding and mitigating [...]

This study explores the impact of modern patent pools--inter-organizational collaborative arrangements for promoting the adoption of technology standards--on the rate of follow-on innovations based on pooled technologies, the vertical structure [...]

Information technology (IT) implementation is a major organizational change event that substantially disrupts an employee's work environment. We develop a model of technology adaptation behaviors that employees perform to cope with a new IT that causes such disruptions. Our model posits technology adaptation behaviors as a key linking mechanism between IT implementation and employee job outcomes, thus offering a holistic nomological network of technology adaptation behaviors. Two field studies conducted over a period of six months, with four waves of data collection each, in two organizations (N = 211 and N = 181) implementing two different ITs, supported the model. We found that employees performed four different technology adaptation behaviors--exploration-to-innovate, exploitation, exploration-to-revert, and avoidance--based on whether they appraised an IT as an opportunity or a threat and whether they had perceptions of control over an IT. Employees' experiential engagements (i.e., user participation and training effectiveness) and psychological engagements (i.e., user involvement and management support) during the implementation jointly determined their appraisal of an IT. Finally, we found that technology adaptation behaviors influenced changes in two key job outcomes, job performance and job satisfaction. Keywords: technology adaptation; exploration; exploitation; avoidance; job performance; job satisfaction History: Received September 22, 2008; accepted March 3, 2013, by Sandra Slaughter, information systems. Published online in Articles in Advance October 27, 2015., 1. Introduction Notwithstanding the global economic slowdown in recent times, organizations around the world continue to implement information technologies (ITs) to gain operational and strategic benefits. Organizations are expected to [...]

Discussions of e-services sometimes bounce schizophrenically between discussing 'e' (operating through the Internet), discussing IT infrastructures (e.g., service-oriented architectures and web services) and discussing services in the sociotechnical world (using the Internet or other networks while performing work for the benefit of someone else). This paper integrates sociotechnical and technical views of e-service by using an e-service domain framework that is a revision of a previously published service domain framework (Alter, 2009). It clarifies the scope of different interpretations of e-services and shows relationships between disparate perspectives for understanding and analyzing e-services. It covers topics including synergies between the various perspectives, links between the layers of the framework, the location of service-dominant logic, self-service, and software as a service (SaaS), and the conceptual and practical gap between sociotechnical and technical views of e-services. Keywords: e-service, e-service domain framework, work system, service system, service science, service dominant logic, FINDING A BALANCE BETWEEN 'E' AND SERVICE IN E-SERVICE Today's discussions about e-service are reminiscent of e-business discussions a decade ago, when an IBM advertising campaign launched a tidal wave [...]

As the pace of technological change continues to accelerate worldwide, the far-reaching social ramifications are frequently not understood until after new technologies become entrenched. Historically, this has resulted in important [...]

Problem definition studies focus on the ways in which problems are characterized in the political domain, and how they can be used strategically to limit or expand policy participation. Nanotechnology entrepreneurs are vying for resources in the political domain while strategically linking their nano-solution to multiple and ambiguous problems. This article considers the evolution of nanotechnology as a solution, and the linked problems from a problem definition perspective. We consider how nanotechnology has been defined over time, in the scientific community and in the media, through development of a database of problem and solution definitional change. We find that, over time, advocates have defined the solution from a more narrow perspective while maintaining the overall ambiguity of the problem set. We suggest that the problem definition perspective is a viable framework for understanding the fluid and complex dynamics of science and technology issues and offer several suggestions for further research. KEY WORDS: agenda setting, nanotechnology, problem definition, Introduction In a seminal after-dinner speech in 1959, Richard P. Feynman, the Nobel Prizewinning physicist, introduced the world to the concept of nanotechnology, inspiring scientists to explore atoms as well [...]

The customer is king, right? Most of us who came from India, Taiwan, or China to the U.S. have been much more successful than if we had stayed at home, [...]

The graduation address delivered to the members of the Class of 2007, St. John's College, is presented. The indispensable quality of science and medicine to human society is discussed, also warning about the current trend of dehumanizing thought in the field and the need to resist its inherent moral challenge.

The definition of globalization refers to the unification of the countries international economies, as an even system distinctive for its intense mutual reliant association. Globalization does not demand natural presence of the countries in order to conduct product exportation or importation, since all economical procedures may be achieved through the propagation of information and financial capitals. The scope of this research was to analyze the relation between economic globalization and the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This article argues that the countries that absorb modern information and communication technologies may be developed and function as active parts of the international economical system and part of the economic globalization process. Key words: Globalization, International Economic Activities, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), INTRODUCTION The use of new technological achievements in the field of economy resulted mainly in the transfer from a seigniorial society to the society of the trade capitalism during the [...]

ABSTRACT. Using results from a three-year (2003-2006) National Science Foundation 'Partnership for Innovation' project undertaken in Native Alaska, this paper addresses if and how Information Technologies (IT) can be incorporated [...]

The Soviet regime used the visual power of light within glass to create an exalted vision of Russia's transformation and the light bulb became an ideological icon. The symbolism and spectacular use of the light bulb in the early Soviet period of the 1920s and 1930s is explored and the Kremlin stars are examined as a monumental manifestation of the Soviet light bulb.

The growth of technology and media have only succeeded in isolating people from their families and others through television, Internet, iPods and online shopping, rather than providing easy communication without barriers as expected earlier. These offer users a cabaret, or an illusory escape from the surrounding realities, that will only be harmful to them in the long run.

Technological development in democratic countries and an assessment process for this purpose is presented.

Telematic technologies and digitized data are increasingly directing the personal and professional activities of man and transforming international communication. The Turing and the Chinese room tests are considered to help investigate how man and computers can work together, as technological evolution outpaces the cultural evolution, and it is concluded that whatever the level of syntactic and semantic knowledge of computers, they lack the developed pragmatics of humans' true intelligence.

The twentieth century saw the rise of various media, such as film, television, radio, and comic books, largely based on new technologies, which were developed and employed to purvey entertainment [...]

A content analysis and a cluster analysis of press releases describing redesigning initiatives in the late 1990s is conducted to understand how commercial organizations transform their web presence. Findings suggest that the majority of companies redesigned their web presence to expand information and change navigation protocols.

The evident divergence between technology and material interest on the one hand and what people believe and are committed to on the other demonstrates not just desirability, but the indispensability, of forms of the history of ideas that are resolutely theoretical-philosophical, critical and axiological in character. It is argued that an intellectual history that is not theoretically, critically and evaluatively oriented is not worthy of the name.

A study examines 'techno-sensibility' by seeking to identify an attitude towards history and a narrative mode that avoid the excesses and simplifications of utopia and dystopia, engaging instead with the diversity of critical responses to the late capitalist culture. Don DeLillo's 1984 novel 'White Noise' is used as a seminal literary exploration of ordinary, banal interactions with technology in everyday life.

Called Home By Blake Hurst 'There is no reason for Tarkio to exist.' So says Dr. Rex Campbell, rural sociologist and leading expert on small Midwestern towns. I'm sitting in [...]

ABSTRACT Digital depression is the term given to the feeling of being overwhelmed and overworked by technology. With fewer employees doing more work in nearly every industry, people are feeling [...]

The scientific status, the knowledge texture of ekistics in the context of modern science and how it shapes its trajectory in the globalized economy, science, technology and socio-culture practice are discussed. Some of the indications about the use of science in the context of socio-cultural uncertainties are presented.

Finland is used as a case study for examining the interrelationship between communication capability and rapid changes in information technology, focusing on the dynamics between required infrastructure standards and technological advances. Also discussed are the skills required to negotiate between these two concepts, and implications for the development of an information society.

The Year 2000 problem, or Y2K in popular speak, has been called everything from the millennium bug to much ado about nothing. The scores of studies and hundreds of media [...]