The Web of Technology and People: Challenges for Economic and Social Research

摘要

The study of technology and people has gained acceptance as a field for social inquiry, but it has remained outside the mainstream of the major disciplines and is dealt with as an interdisciplinary area of specialixzation across the social and economic sciences. In addition, this field has been fragmented further by particular technologies and issues, creating journals focused on priwacy issues, others focused on education, for example, with a gulf remaining between social scientists on the one hand, and engineers and computer scientists on the other.