What is it about?
After nearly a decade of work at the University of Rhode Island (URI), under the leadership of Ruby Roy Dholakia, on information and communication technologies adoption and use -- in settings such as the home, the workplace and 'third places' (shops, transport) -- it was time to assemble a group of experts (scholars, practitioners) to write on such topics. This book is the result of such an effort.
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Why is it important?
The book chapters represent a very interesting mix of academic, public policy and industry authors. Many of the ideas were amazingly prescient, and the impacts predicted by the authors are unfolding well into the second decade of the 21st century. Meanwhile, the research program led by Ruby Roy Dholakia at the University of Rhode Island (URI), which resulted in this book, has subsequently produced a dozen doctoral dissertations and many articles and books.
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This page is a summary of: New infotainment Technologies in the Home, December 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.4324/9781315044873.
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Successor book, from Ruby Roy Dholakia, on technology in the home
After the 'infotainment' book, another 15+ years of work was done at the University of Rhode Island (URI), by Ruby Roy Dholakia of the University of Rhode Island (URI) and her global associates; and all this is reflected in this newer book published by Springer. It brings together in a systematic fashion over 2 decades of work at URI on technology in the home.
Google Scholar Page: Ruby Roy Dholakia
An up to date record of work on tech-markets-consumers
Google Scholar Page: Nikhilesh Dholakia
Comprehensive record of work on tech-markets-consumer-culture
Bill Dutton: A pioneering Internet scholar, author in the Infotainment book
About William H. Dutton: "He has recently edited the 'Oxford Handbook of Internet Studies' (OUP 2013), four volumes on 'Politics and the Internet' (Routledge 2014), and a reader entitled 'Society and the Internet', with Mark Graham (OUP 2014). "
Charles "Chip" Steinfield: A pioneering media-convergence scholar, author in the Infotainment book
Chip has developed some great insights into media and web-based commerce and transactions.
Fuat FIRAT: Insightful contributor to the Infotainment book
The ideas in the very prescient chapter on new media and tech literacy by Fuat, in the Infotainment book, started gaining some currency only in the second decade of the 21st century.
Technology in the Home and Gender Roles: Research by Ruby Roy Dholakia
One of several publications on this theme by Ruby Roy Dholakia.
Technology in the Home and Gender Roles: More by Ruby Roy Dholakia
Another research piece on this theme emerging from the work by Ruby Roy Dholakia, at the University of Rhode Island (URI), and her global associates.
Technology in the Home and Gender Roles: Ruby Roy Dholakia reviews the field
This is article is part of a special issue edited by Alladi Venkatesh, whose own work on technology in the home is prodigious in quantity and very prescient and insightful in its approach and scope.
HGTV: Web-based info portal on the Smart Home
Info portal on the Smart Home, from this TV channel dedicated to home building and improvement.
Consumers, Curators, and Curiousness: A New E-Biz+Physical-Biz model
Reviewing, recommending and sharing are popular online activities that shape platforms, social sites, and merchant sites. This venture, State X State, illustrates a new twist that combines e-biz and physical travel and tourism, as well as e-shopping. It uses the approach of curated selection and presentation of sights, activities, places, happenings, merchants and products.
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