The Experience of Technological Change in Rural Australia : Comparing Emancipatory Rhetoric with Empirical Reality

The Experience of Technological Change in Rural Australia

Title: The Experience of Technological Change in Rural Australia: Comparing Emancipatory Rhetoric with Empirical Reality
Author(s): Kwamena Kwansah-Aidoo, Shane G. Elson
Publisher: Common Ground Research Networks
Collection: Common Ground Research Networks
Series: Organization Studies
Journal Title: The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management: Annual Review
Keywords: Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), Emancipatory Potentials, Communicative Action, Integration, Participation, Change
Volume: 6
Issue: 9
Date: April 03, 2007
ISSN: 1447-9524 (Print)
ISSN: 1447-9575 (Online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.18848/1447-9524/CGP/v06i09/50277
Citation: Kwansah-Aidoo, Kwamena, and Shane G. Elson. 2007. "The Experience of Technological Change in Rural Australia: Comparing Emancipatory Rhetoric with Empirical Reality." The International Journal of Knowledge, Culture, and Change Management: Annual Review 6 (9): 141-150. doi:10.18848/1447-9524/CGP/v06i09/50277.
Extent: 10 pages

This paper comapares the positive talk about ICTs with the real life experience of people who have adopted them in rural Victoria, Australia.