The Information Society, Volume 19

Volume 19, Number 1, 2003

Letter from Rob Kling, Editor-in-Chief and Guest Editors Kenneth L. Kraemer and Jason Dedrick

• Jennifer Gibbs, Kenneth L. Kraemer, Jason L. Dedrick:
  Environment and Policy Factors Shaping Global E-Commerce Diffusion: A Cross-Country Comparison.
  
• Poh-Kam Wong:
  Global and National Factors Affecting E-Commerce Diffusion in Singapore.
  
• Paulo Bastos Tigre:
  Brazil in the Age of Electronic Commerce.
  
• Eric Brousseau:
  E-Commerce in France: Did Early Adoption Prevent its Development?
  
• Tain-Jy Chen:
  E-Commerce to Protect the Network Relationships: The Case of Taiwan's PC Industry.
  
• Juan J. Palacios:
  The Development of E-Commerce in Mexico: a Business-led Passing Boom or a Step Toward the Emergence of a Digital Economy?
  
• Heejin Lee, Robert M. O'Keefe, Kyounglim Yun:
  The Growth of Broadband and Electronic Commerce in South Korea: Contributing Factors.
  
• Kim Viborg Andersen, Niels Bjørn-Andersen, Jason L. Dedrick:
  Governance Initiatives Creating a Demand-Driven E-Commerce Approach: The Case of Denmar.
  

• Eileen M. Trauth: Cases on Global IT Applications and Management: Successes and Pitfalls, edited by F.B. Tan. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Publishing, 2002.
• William Aspray: Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes, edited by Michael Thad Allen and Gabrielle Hecht. Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 2001.

Volume 19, Number 2, 2003

Letter from the Editor-in-Chief Rob Kling

• Gisle Hannemyr:
  The Internet as Hyperbole: Critical Examination of Adoption Rates.
  
• Daniel J. Paré:
  Does This Site Deliver? B2B E-commerce Services for Developing Countries.
  
• Steve Sawyer, Kevin Crowston, Rolf T. Wigand, Marcel M. Allbritton:
  The Social Embeddedness of Transactions: Evidence from the Residential Real Estate Industry.
  
• Krishna P. Jayakar:
  Cross-Sectoral Differences in Intellectual Property Enforcement in Developing Countries: The Role of State-Industry Linkages.
  
• Christian Sandvig:
  Public Internet Access for Young Children in the Inner City: Evidence to Inform Access Subsidy and Content Regulation.
  
• Tomoko Kanayama:
  Leaving It up to the Industry: People with Disabilities and the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
  

Volume 19, Number 3, 2003

• Roberta Lamb:
  Memorial: The Social Construction of Rob Kling.
  

Letter from the Guest Editor Sasha Barab: An Introduction to the Special Issue: Designing for Virtual Communities in the Service of Learning

• Mark Schlager, Judi Fucso:
  Online Teacher Communities: Technology Snake-Oil or Powerful Catalysts for Professional Development?
  
• Rob Kling, Christina Courtright:
  Characterizing Collective Behavior Online: The Social Organization of Hangouts, Clubs, Associations, Teams and Communities.
  
• Sasha Barab, James MaKinster, Rebecca Scheckler:
  Designing System Dualities: Building Web-Based Community.
  
• Thomas Schwen, Noriko Hara:
  Community of Practice a metaphor for Online Design.
  

Volume 19, Number 4, 2003

• Harmeet S. Sawhney: Letter from the Interim Editor.
• Sharon Strover: Remapping the Digital Divide.

• Anthony G. Wilhelm:
  Leveraging Sunken Investments in Communications Infrastructure: A Policy Perspective from the USA.
  
• Kyle Nicholas:
  Geo-Policy Barriers and Rural Internet Access: The Regulatory Role in Constructing the Digital Divide.
  
• Mark Warschauer:
  Dissecting the "Digital Divide": A Case Study in Egypt.
  
• Dara V. O'Neil, Paul Manuel Aviles Baker:
  The Role of Institutional Motivations in Technological Adoption: Implementation of DeKalb County's Family Technology Resource Centers.
  
• Jan van Dijk, Kenneth Hacker:
  The Digital Divide as a Complex and Dynamic Phenomenon.
  

• Harmeet S. Sawhney:
  Universal Service Expansion: Two Perspectives.
  

Volume 19, Number 5, 2003

• Murali Venkatesh: Letter from Special Issue Editor.

• Christopher Blattman, Robert T. Jensen, Raul Roman:
  Assessing the Need and Potential of Community Networking for Development in Rural India.
  
• Randal D. Pinkett:
  Community Technology and Community Building: Early Results from the Creating Community Connections Project.
  
• John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson:
  A Trajectory for Community Networks.
  
• Fiorella de Cindio, Oliverio Gentile, Philip Grew, Daniela Redolfi:
  Community Networks: Rules of Behavior and Social Structure.
  
• Laura Dianne Stanley:
  Beyond Access: Psychosocial Barriers to Computer Literacy.
  
• Keith N. Hampton:
  Grieving for a Lost Network Collective Action in a Wired Suburb.