What is it about?
This article summarizes the findings of the contributions collected in the special issue “Symposium ICT@Admin - The Technology of Information, Communication, and Administration—An Entwined History” dedicated to the accelerated mechanization and the later digitization of administrative information processing in the 20th century. It provides a conceptual framework around the notions of administration, process, information, media, and power. This framework allows for situating different approaches within the broad field of interaction between administrative practice and social dynamics.
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Why is it important?
Information processing is key to the efficient functioning of almost every institution, be it private or public. The special issue "Symposium ICT@Admin" brings together articles of varying thematic and geographical emphasis to offer an unprecedentedly broad overview of the topic. The articles investigate the complex interactions between the development of new information and communication technologies and the changes in administrative practice during the 20th century.
Perspectives
In the light of the ongoing debates about information and disinformation, the use and misuse of information, totalitarian surveillance, and the role of ICT in all this, studies on information seem to be more important than ever, to help keep the information society informed.
Peter Fleer
Swiss Federal Archives
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This page is a summary of: Conclusion: Digitization and the Continuities of Change in Administrative Information Processing, Administration & Society, August 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0095399718791540.
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