The Information Society, Volume 23, Issue 5 (2007)

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Miscellany

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief
Harmeet Sawhney
Page: 295
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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IN MEMORY OF ROBERTA LAMB

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Reflections on Roberta Lamb, Social Actor
Elizabeth Davidson
Pages: 297-299
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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The Social Actor Traveling the World
Helena Karsten
Pages: 301-303
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Roberta Lamb: Mentor and Friend
Nilmini Wickramasinghe
Pages: 305-306
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Roberta Lamb, On the Way
Steve Sawyer
Pages: 307-308
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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ARTICLES

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Standardization of Work: Co-constructed Practice
Gunnar Ellingsen, Eric Monteiro & Glenn Munkvold
Pages: 309-326
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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E-Government Policy and Health Information Systems Implementation in Andhra Pradesh, India: Need for Articulation of Linkages Between the Macro and the Micro
Shirin Madon, Sundeep Sahay & Randeep Sudan
Pages: 327-344
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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The Internet, Spatial Data Globalization, and Data Use: The Case of Tibet
Nathan J. Engler & G. Brent Hall
Pages: 345-359
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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The Evolution of Agency: Spectra of Bioagency and Cyberagency
Kenneth R. Fleischmann
Pages: 361-371
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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The Myths of E-Government: Looking Beyond the Assumptions of a New and Better Government
Victor Bekkers & Vincent Homburg
Pages: 373-382
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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PERSPECTIVE

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Who Searches the Searchers? Community Privacy in the Age of Monolithic Search Engines
Jonathan A. Poritz
Pages: 383-389
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Searching for the Great Chain of Being Using Google Print
Shai Ophir
Pages: 391-394
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Return to Babel: Emergent Diversity, Digital Resources, and Local Knowledge
Robin Boast, Michael Bravo & Ramesh Srinivasan
Pages: 395-403
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Democratic and Anti-Democratic Regulators of the Internet: A Framework
Michael L. Best & Keegan W. Wade
Pages: 405-411
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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BOOK REVIEWS

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The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts, edited by Chrisanthi Avgerou, Claudio Ciborra, and Frank Land. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 312 pp. $59.95 paper/$124.50 cloth. ISBN 978-0-19-925352-4 paper/978-0-19-925356-2 cloth
Hamid R. Ekbia
Pages: 413-414
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Consumer Health Informatics: Informing Consumers and Improving Health Care, edited by Deborah Lewis, Gunther Eysenbach, Rita Kukafka, P. Zoe Stavri, and Holly Jimison. New York: Springer Publishing, 2005. xxi + 258 pp. $69.95 cloth. ISBN 0-387-23991-X
Jacqueline Low
Pages: 415-416
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Hollywood's Road to Riches, by David Waterman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005. xvi + 393 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN 0674019458
Stephen McElhinney
Pages: 417-418
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Gender, Ethics and Information Technology, by Alison Adam. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. vi +196 pp. $74.95 cloth. ISBN 1-4039-1506-7
Krista Scott-Dixon
Pages: 419-420
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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Cyberspaces of Their Own: Female Fandoms Online, by Rhiannon Bury. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2005. x+ 242 pp. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-8204-7118-6
Mary E. Virnoche
Pages: 421-422
Published online: 13 Oct 2007
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