[Air-L] Book Announcement

[Tony Cline]

With apologies for self-promotion, Information Communication Technology and
Social Transformation:  A Social and Historical Perspective, Hugh F. Cline,
Routledge, 2014.  This book argues that information communication
technologies are not creating new forms of social structure, but rather
altering long-standing institutions and amplifying existing trends of social
change that have their origins in ancient times. Using a comparative
historical perspective, it analyzes the applications of information
communication technologies in relation to changes in norms and values,
education institutions, the socialization of children, new forms of deviant
and criminal behaviors, enhanced participation in religious activities,
patterns of knowledge creation and use, the expansion of consumerism, and
changing experiences of distance and time.

 

Hugh F (Tony) Cline

Adjunct Professor of Sociology and Education

Teachers College, Columbia University

hc401 at columbia.edu

Telephone 609 921-6979

Fax 609 921-0169