|
Although the study
of the adoption and diffusion of information and communication
technologies (ICT) is one of the more mature research areas within the IS
discipline, much of the activity to date has focused upon conducting
investigations from organizational and/or end-user/employee perspectives.
While the key role of ICT within business and government is now
well-recognized, it is also important to acknowledge that in modern
society, ICT has become prevalent in the daily home lives of many
individuals in forms such as e-commerce, e-government, e-learning,
e-health, and e-working. This relatively recent emergence of the
technology-contextualized home environment has in turn, generated
numerous issues worthy of investigation, including awareness, adoption
and usage of emerging technologies and electronic services, and social
exclusion due to unequal adoption by different segments of society.
However, given the broad range of issues offering potentially fruitful
areas for investigation, and the varying approaches that may be employed
to explore them, it is sometimes unclear where to place such material.
Therefore, the objective of this mini-track is to provide a platform for
the presentation and discussion of original research into emerging issues
surrounding ICT adoption (and non-adoption) from the
residential/household perspectives of consumers and citizens.
|
