... to create a new and updated occupational taxonomy to replace the DOT through the Occupational Information System (OIS) and in reliance on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Requirements Survey. Inter Organizational Task Force IOTF National Research Council NRC Social Security Administration SSA...

...This chapter discusses how geographic information systems (GIS) have become indispensable in the study of policing. It describes the history of recognizing the importance of place and crime, arguing that GIS is a natural progression of that historical body of work, particularly in the study of race...

...This chapter provides an overview of the changing dynamics of education. It begins by questioning what it means to be an “educated” person in the age of information, as well as how educational institutions can help students get there. By petitioning schools, particularly institutions of higher...

... Wellman Barry Castells Manuel Hyper networked society “Informationalism ” Network age nature of Capitalism Identity politics Power Production Theory of cyberculture Vertical organizations Cultural assimilation Cultural hegemony Decentralization of goods and services Monoculturalization...

...This chapter examines the connection between the global flow of information and future wars, claiming that the same developments and technologies that enable global information flows among citizens can also be used for conducting wars. This notion of open flows of information in the context...

...This chapter maintains that global information flows have brought with them a world of enhanced communication, transparency, and productivity (the good side of information), but not without surveillance, terror, and war (the bad side). Instead of focusing on just one, the chapter examines both...

...This chapter explores the notion of power and its effects on information flow. Current information flows are dictated by two conflicting powers—the power to enable information flow, and the power to block the flow. These powers manifest themselves at all levels, such as that of the individual users...

...This chapter argues that information creates forms of power that may transcend anyone's grasp or use. It asks how the development of increasingly interconnected global networks of power entangle individuals, groups, and nations in networks of power that they do not control and that, in fact...

..., the contradictory pressures on the flow of information and the imposition of punishment, and the techniques used by politicians in London to relieve these pressures. Amritsar massacre Dyer Reginald Gandhi Mahatma George Lloyd Churchill Winston Milner Viscount Montagu Edwin Hunter Committee Rowlatt Acts...

...Much of the critique of the US drone program in Pakistan relies upon heroic assumptions about the program, who it targets and with what outcomes, and the degree to which the Pakistani government has been complicit in the program. In this chapter, I first provide important contextual information...

... coordination obligations to information distribution, compliance monitoring, and possibly even project implementation. It suggests that the ESA illustrates one form that formal interagency coordination of implementation and post-decision monitoring might take. The chapter ultimately argues that policymakers...

...In chapter 1, the author draws from the national enumeration efforts of the US Census Bureau to provide statistical information on interracial relationships. As a way to continue exploring “invisible mixture” and mapping multiracial people into scholarly and popular discussions about interracial...

...Chapter 2 examines the gendered patterns of responsibility that cut across class lines. Nurturing children’s developing bodies requires a series of related competencies: noticing a child’s needs, tastes, and desires; gathering information about health...

..., an information superhighway, a virtual reality, and a framework for promoting globalization and revolution. This book maintains that contested concepts had material consequences and helped shape not just our sense of the Internet, but the development of the technology itself. It focuses on how people imagine...

... provide information about the nature and severity of their injuries, number of years since those injuries, and other biographical information drawn from their accounts. On that note, the precise time frame of the project and interviews has also been left ambiguous to help blur the identities of the actual...

...This chapter examines the effects of global capitalism on India's class divide and economic development. Focusing on the case of Hyderabad, it considers the fate of skilled migrant workers in the information technology industry who stay in India and compares their situation with that of Indian...

... occurring in capitalist countries in the 1970s as “modernization” became “postmodernization.” In this model, modernization is coterminous with “industrialization,” or the shift from agricultural production to industry; postmodernization corresponds with “informationalization,” or the shift from industry...

.... After the midpoint of the twentieth century, EJ closed due to the rise of the service and information economy. The chapter then describes the emergence of IBM in Endicott, highlighting how the company created some of the earliest computing technologies that set off the “third industrial revolution...

... of parliamentary models of accountability offers a contrast with the more complex presidential model. Given these components of accountability, it follows that evading accountability can be achieved in three ways. First, it can be evaded by manipulating the flow of information about events, actions, and policies...

... to create a new and updated occupational taxonomy to replace the DOT through the Occupational Information System (OIS) and in reliance on the Bureau of Labor Statistics Occupational Requirements Survey. data Department of Labor DOL Dictionary of Occupational Titles DOT gridding history Social Security...