Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923658
- Title
- E-government and the production of standardized identity
- Author/Creator
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Henman, Paul;
Dean, Mitchell
- Institution
- The Unviersity of Newcastle. Faculty of Education and Arts, School of Humanities and Social Science
- Description
- The history and evolution of governing and the state is inextricably entwined with the history and evolution of what we might retrospectively call 'information and communications technologies' (ICTs). From the invention of writing in ancient Sumeria, to the deployment of surveys, paper files and filing cabinets in Victorian bureaucracies, to globally available interactive internet websites, ICTs provide the information infrastructure that both supports and precipitates government innovation. They have a role, along with military, transportation and economic technologies, in the history of those regimes of practices that constitute the state. The trajectory of ICTs is also enmeshed with processes of standardization, from the codification of Morse Code in the 1840s, to the progressive standardization of time, to the recent battle between HDVD and Blu-ray over a standard format for high-definition digital video.
- Relation
- Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governance p. 77-93
- Relation
- http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=347965
- Date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Keyword(s)
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e-government;
information and communications technologies;
governments;
transportation
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/923658
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780230579316
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