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Information Communication & Society
Volume 9(6), 2006

 
CONTENTS
 
Goldner, Melinda How health status impacts the types of information consumers seek online. 693-713
 
  A few studies examine what types of health information people seek online, yet we know little about how this varies by health status 
 
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drugs
health
computer
technologies
mental health
sexuality
 
 
Sanders, Carrie Have you been identified?: Hidden boundary work in emergency services classifications. 714-736
 
  Information technologies, such as the computer-aided dispatch (CAD) system, have fundamentally changed workplace protocols 
 
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technologies
organizational
computer
 
 
Fekete, Laszlo The ethics of economic interactions in the network economy. 737-760
 
  The rise of the network economy brought about the strong conviction that economic interactions in the network economy could be based on cooperative, informed and transparent communication, which would counteract the negative welfare effects of unequal bargaining power, the opacity of the intentions of the parties, opportunistic behavior, monopolies and market failures 
 
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economics
law
 
 
Haythornthwaite, Caroline Articulating divides in distributed knowledge practice. 761-780
 
  Working together has always been a challenge but recent trends to who works with whom, on what, and across what regions, cultures, disciplines and time zones have conspired to increase the complexity of team work, and in particular the complexity of knowledge work and communication across knowledge divides 
 
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text and writing
science
technologies
 
 
Mackenzie, Adrian Innumerable transmissions: Wi-Fi from spectacle to movement. 781-802
 
  This paper analyses Wi-Fi, a mundane wireless networking technology, in terms of a cultural flow of meanings concerning movement of people and data 
 
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science
technologies
semiotic theory
computer