Vol. 18, No. 1

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief

Explaining the Resurgence of U.S. Competitiveness: The Rise of Wintelism. [Abstract]
Jeffrey Hart and Sangbae Kim

Data Retention and the Panoptic Society: The Social Benefits of Forgetfulness [Abstract]
Jean-François Blanchette and Deborah Johnson

Toward a Typology of Internet Users and Online Privacy Concerns [Abstract]
Kim Sheehan

An Information-Based Model of NGO-Mediation for the Empowerment of Slum Dwellers in Bangalore [Abstract]
Shirin Madon and Sundeep Sahay

Knowledge Management: A Three-Fold Framework [Abstract]
Clyde Holsapple and K.D. Joshi

BOOK REVIEWS

Journalism and Democracy: An evaluation of the political public sphere. B. McNair. (Routledge), London and New York (2000).
Reviewed by Mark Brewin

Technoromanticism: digital narrative, holism, and the romance of the real. R. Coyne.MIT Press, Cambridge (1999).
Reviewed by Jonathan Elmer

Systems, Experts, and Computers: The Systems Approach in Management and Engineering, World War II and After. A.C Hughes and T.P. Hughes (Eds.). MIT Press, (2000).
Reviewed by Steven Jackson

The World Wide Web and Contemporary Cultural Theory. A. Herman and T. Swiss. Routledge, New York (2000).
Reviewed by John Carlos Rowe

Vol. 18, No. 2

Letter from the Guest Editors Sundeep Sahay and Chrisanthi Avgerou

Local adaptations to global trends: A study of an IT-based organizational change programme in a Nigerian bank [Abstract]
Abiodun Bada

Balancing the Local and Global in Infrastructural Information Systems. [Abstract]
Knut Rolland and Eric Monteiro

Information Systems and Developing Countries: Failure, Success and Local Improvisations [Abstract]
Richard Heeks

The Struggle for District-based Health Information Systems in South Africa [Abstract]
Jørn Braa and Calle Hedberg

Outsourcing as an Improvisation: A Case Study in Latin America [Abstract]
Leiser Silva

Practice-based Design of Information Systems: Notes from the hyper-developed world [Abstract]
Lucy Suchman

BOOK REVIEWS

Ars Electronica: Facing the Future, A Survey of Two Decades. Timothy Druckrey with Ars Electronica (Eds). MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1999).
Reviewed by Richard Coyne

Vol. 18, No. 3

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Rob Kling

Letter from the Special Section Editors
Ten Years of Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Lorrie Faith Cranor

SPECIAL SECTION: Computers, Freedom and Privacy
Guest Editor: Lorrie Faith Cranor

Technology and Political Artifacts: The CFP2000 Workshop on Freedom and Privacy by Design [Abstract]
Lenny Foner

The network society as seen from Italy [Abstract unavailable]
Giancarlo Livraghi and Andrea Monti

ARTICLES

Community Technology and Democratic Rationalization [Abstract]
Maria Bakardjieva and Andrew Feenberg

ICANN and Internet Governance: Leveraging Technical Coordination to Realize Global Public Policy [Abstract][Full text in PDF]
Hans Klein

Failures and successes: Notes on the development of electronic cash [Abstract]
Felix Stalder

Domesticating Computers and the Internet [Abstract]
Jonathon N. Cummings and Robert Kraut

BOOK REVIEW

net_condition: art and global media. P.Weibel, and T. Druckrey (Eds.). MIT Press, Cambridge, MA: (2001).
Reviewed by Blaise Cronin

Vol. 18, No. 4

Time and information technology: Temporal impacts on individuals, organizations and society

Guest Editors: Heejin Lee & E. A. Whitley

ARTICLES

The Web of Time and the Dilemma of Globalization [Abstract]
Soraj Hongladarom

Managing Time in a Software Factory: Temporal And Spatial Organisation of IS Development Activities [Abstract]
Joe Nandhakumar

Temporal Issues in Information and Communication Technology-Enabled Organizational Change: Evidence From an Enterprise Systems Implementation [Abstract]
Steve Sawyer and Richard Southwick

On the Move: Technology, Mobility, and the Mediation of Social Time and Space [Abstract]
Nicola Green

The Cyber Space-Time Continuum: Meaning and Metaphor [Abstract]
Adrian Mihalache

BOOK REVIEW

Online Communities: Commerce, Community Action, and the Virtual University. C. Werry & M. Mowbray (Eds.). Prentice Hall, NJ: (2000).
Reviewed by Rebecca Scheckler & Sasha Barab

The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest. D. Croteau & W. Hoynes. Pine Forge Press, Thousand Oaks, CA: (2001).
Reviewed by Michael Schudson

What's the Matter with the Internet? M. Poster. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN: (2001).
Reviewed by Willard Uncapher