The Digital City

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Introduction

   • Michel S. Laguerre

   Pages 1-6

3. IT as Process and Globalization as Outcome

   • Michel S. Laguerre

   Pages 7-24

4. Teleworkers and Telemanagers: IT and Telecommuting in the Digital City

   • Michel S. Laguerre

   Pages 25-65

5. The Digital Office

   • Michel S. Laguerre

   Pages 66-96

6. Virtual City Hall: The Governance of Local E-Government

   • Michel S. Laguerre

   Pages 97-124

7. Virtual Diasporas and Cyberspace

   • Michel S. Laguerre

   Pages 125-142

8. Virtual Time: The Processuality of the Cyberweek

   • Michel S. Laguerre

   Pages 143-162

9. Conclusion: The Digital City as the Virtual Embodiment of the Global City

   • Michel S. Laguerre

   Pages 163-171

10. Back Matter

    Pages 172-211

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Evolving out of a research project on information technology and society, the book explores the digitization of the American city. Laguerre examines the impact of changes to various sectors of society, brought about by the advent of information technology and the Internet upon daily life in the contemporary American metropolis. The book focuses on actual information technology practices in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco metropolitan area, explaining how those practices are remoulding social relations, global interaction and the workplace environment.

• cyberspace
• Internet
• society
• technology

'...it has been a pleasure to review a book that seems to offer to the reader, as a matter of course, the solidity of facts, data and references. This has been achieved without boring the reader...The author achieves fully and successfully his intent.' - Lanfranco Aceti, Information, Communication& Society

• University of California, Berkeley, USA

  Michel S. Laguerre

MICHEL S. LAGUERRE is Professor and Director of the Berkeley Center for Globalization and Information Technology at the University of California, Berkeley, USA. He has published several books, including The Global Ethnopolis; Chinatown, Japantown and Manilatown in American Society, Urban Multiculturalism and Globalisation in New York City, Diasporic Citizenship, The Informal City, and Minoritized Space: An Inquiry into the Spatial Order of Things. His most recent book Diasporic Politics; Transnational Networks of Global Governance is forthcoming.

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