When Movements Collide: Examining the Proliferation of Intranets
- Topics:
- Employee Handbook
- Tags:
- Intranet,
- University Of Hawaii
- Source:
- University of Hawaii
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Overview: This paper critically examines the confluence of interests that characterized the rapid, widespread adoption of intranets. The authors reflect on the notion that when a new technology clearly has both emancipatory and control applications, and is easily appropriated at the grass roots level and the organizational level, its diffusion can be rapid and pervasive. There is some theoretical support for and explanatory value to be gained from considering the intranet movement as a sub-movement within the computerization movement. But the authors more comprehensive understanding engages "Convergence" rhetoric - specifically, understandings about the new wave of technological capability that has bundled computing and communication advances with lifestyle changes - and realities - where social worlds collide and work lives change.
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Format: PDF | Size: 410KB | Date: Mar 2005 | Pages: 35
