The Informational Space Economy

1. The Information Economy (Macro), Information- & Knowledge Occupations, Jobs, Employment, Activities and Sectors & Employment

• Changes in the Nature of Work
• Quaternary and Quinary Service Sectors
• Structural Changes in the Information Economy

  
  

2. Information Flows in Space

• Information in Complex Patterns of Spatial Transactions
• Information Flows within Spatially Dispersed Organizational Systems
• The Information City
• Transaction Costs and Information
• Role of Information in International Trade
• Information and Migration
  • LACK OF INFORMATION BIGGEST IMPEDIMENT TO FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT; [The Week in Germany, March 28, 1997]
• Disclosure and Secrecy
• Search/ Scanning/ Monitoring + other Information Acquisition Behaviors
• Electronic Information Transmission
• Face-to-Face Communications
• Physical Transmission
  • The U.S.Mail
  • Embodied Information Flows: Messengers
  • Embodied Technology Transfers
• Transporting Mass or Messages?
  • The History of the Telephone
  • Telecommuting
• (Electronic) Telecommunications
• The Fortunes of the Communications Software Industry: "THE SOFTWARE REVOLUTION" Cover Story, Business Week, Dec.4, 1995.
• The Economics of the Internet
• National Information Infrastructure
• Information as a commodity marketable on the Internet
  • Property Rights on the Internet
• Information & Telecommunications Impacts
• Centralization or Decentralization?
  • Internet Fuels Revival of Centralized 'Big Iron' Computing; New York Times, May 19, 1999 By STEVE LOHR with JOHN MARKOFF "Computer centers, known as server farms, are the unglamorous side of the Internet revolution. They are sprouting up across the country in a sure sign of the trend toward once again housing information and computer power centrally -- a seeming reversal of the last two decades of computing." [Mirror]
  
  

3. Information and Spatial Decision-Making

• Plentiful Information but Uneven Access (educational, economic, geographic barriers)
• Decisions, Uncertainty & Information
• Role of Information in Location Decisions
• Information and Learning in (sequential) Decision Processes
• Decision-Support Systems (DSS) and Geographic Management Information Systems (GMIS)

4. Empirical Information for Geographic Research

Syllabi Information Networks Economics

References: Business Informatics (mainly German Lit)

Economics of Information Products

The Economics of Information - Web Sources [Benjamin Bates, UT, Knoxville]

National Geographic. Vol.188(4), Oct. 1995. "Information Revolution".

The Knowledge Economy: The Nature of Information in the 21st Century 1993-94 Annual Review of the Institute for Information Studies, a joint program of Nortel and The Aspen Institute. (6 papers, 1993/1994)

The Economics of Information - Web Sources

Aguilar, Francis Joseph. Scanning the Business Environment. N.Y.: Macmillan, 1967.

Aoki, M., Information, Incentives and Bargaining in the Japanese Economy. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1988.

Bakis, Henry. Corporate Networks, International Communications and Interdependence: Perspectives from Geography and Information Systems. Pinter/St.Martin's 1993.

Beal, George M. et al., eds., Knowledge Generation, Exchange, and Utilization. Westview 1986. [P90 K57/Suz]; including:

• Models of Knowledge Transfer (E.Rogers), pp.37ff.
• Modeling the Knowledge System, pp.77ff.
• Communication in Knowledge Production..., pp.135ff.
• Linkage: Key to Understanding the Knowledge System, pp.211ff.
• Information Science: Interfaces with Knowledge Generation- Utilization, pp.287ff.

Branscomb, Lewis M. and James Keller (eds.) Intelligent Tranportation and the National Information Infrastructure. MIT Press, 1996 ISBN 0-262-52215-2 320 pp. $25.00 (paper)

Brown, John Seely and Paul Duguid The Social Life of Information (Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 2000) [first three chapters online]

Brunn, S. and T.Leinbach, eds., Collapsing Space and Time (Communications and Information), 1991 [HE7631.B785]

Butler, Meredith and Bruce Kingma, eds., The Economics of Information in the Networked Environment. (Table of Contents); The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) published the proceedings in June 1996.

Castells, Manuel. The Informational City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring, and the Urban-Regional Process. Basil Blackwell 1989 [HC79.I55.C37]

Castells, Manuel. The Rise of the Network Society. (The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture, Vol.I). Blackwell Paperback 1996.

Cooke, Philip et al. Towards Global Localization: The Computing and Telecommunications Industries in Britain and France. University College London Press 1992 [HF1414.T68/Suz]

Daniels, P.W. "Internationalization, Telecommunications and Metropolitan Development: The Role of Producer Services," in: S.Brunn and T. Leinbach, eds., Collapsing Space and Time: Geographic Aspects of Communication and Information. 1991, pp.149ff.

Davis, Joel. Mapping the Mind: The Secrets of the Human Brain & How it Works. Birch Lane, 1997 [$24.95/ Bellingham author]

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Feldman, Martha and James G. March, "Information in Organizations as Signals and Symbol", ASQ, vol.26, June 1981, pp.171-86.

Feldman, Mayann P. The Geography of Innovation. Kluwer 1994 [T173.8. F44]

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Graham, Stephen and Simon Marvin, Telecommunications and the City: Electronic Spaces, Urban Places. London: Routledge, 1996 [HE7631.G73]

Grimshaw, David J., Bringing Geographical Information Systems into Business. Longman Paperback, 1994 [HF5548.2.G7336]

Jean-Michel Guldmann, [Department of City and Regional Planning, The Ohio State University] Competing destinations and intervening opportunities interaction models of inter-city telecommunication flows, Regional Science Vienna Congress, 1998. [Abstract]

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Healey, Michael J., Economic Activity and Land Use: The Changing Information Base for Local and Regional Studies. Longman 1991 [HD596.E26]

Hepworth, Mark E. Geography of the Information Economy. London: Belhaven (Pinter), 1989. [HD9999.I492.H46]

• Summary

Hepworth, Mark E., Information Technology as Spatial Systems, Progress in Human Geography 11(2), June 1987, pp.157-80.

Hernon, Peter, et al., eds., Federal Information Policies in the 1990s: Views and Perspectives. Ablex Publ.Co. 1996 {incl. chapter on GIS} [JK 468.S4.F43]

Hirshleifer, Jack and John G. Riley, The Analytics of Uncertainty and Information. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Hodge, David and Heli Koski, Information and Communication Technologies and Transportation: European-US Collaborative and Comparative Research Possibilities (1997)

Huck, Steffen (Humboldt University, Berlin) and Joerg Oechssler (Humboldt University) Contact: oechsler@wiwi.hu-berlin.de Informational Cascades with Continuous Action Spaces, 1997.

Huitt, William G., Success in the Information Age: A Paradigm Shift [last revised: July 1997]

Jussawalla, Meheroo et al., eds., Information Technology and Global Interdependence. Greenwood Press 1989. [HD9999.I492.I54]

Kahin, Brian and James H. Keller (eds.) Coordinating the Internet. MIT Press, July 1997 ISBN 0-262-61136-8 500 pp. $25.00 (paper)

Kahin, Brian and Charles Nesson (eds.) Borders in Cyberspace: Information Policy and the Global Information Infrastructure. MIT Press, 1996 ISBN 0-262-61126-0 300 pp. $25.00 (paper)

Kahin, Brian, ed., BUILDING INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE; McGraw-Hill, 1991

Kapur, Puneet. Internet Competitive Advantage and the Global Economy [Infotech Services: Internet Training and Consulting, USA]

Keegan, W.J., Multinational Scanning: A Study of the Information Sources Utilized by Headquarters Executives in Multinational Companies, Administrative Science Quarterly, 9 (1974), 411-21.

Kellerman, Aharon. Telecommunications and Geography. 1993

Kennan, John and Robert Wilson, "Bargaining with Private Information," Journ of Econ.Lit., 31(1), March 1993, 45-104.

Kling, Rob, Learning about Information Technologies and Social Change: The Contribution of Social Informatics. Information Society, Volume 16, Number 3, 2000 [Abstract] [Full Text]

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1. Volume I: Knowledge and Knowledge Production
2. Vol.II: The Branches of Learning.
3. Vol. III: The Economic of Information and Human Capital
4. Vol. IV: Research and New Knowledge
5. Vol. V: Media of Communication
6. Vol. VI: Information Services and Information Machines
7. Vol. VII: Knowledge Production: Its Size and Growth
8. Vol. VIII: Knowledge Occupations and the Knowledgeable Society.

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• Telegeography TeleGeography, Inc. (TGI) is an independent publisher and distributor of reports on two aspects of telegeography: international telecommunications and the ownership of the global information economy. Customized mapping and consulting services are also available from TGI upon request.

Interesting Syllabi:

The Geography of the Information Society (Buffalo, GEO 666)

The Economics of Information - Web Sources

Interesting Conferences:

Competing in the Information Society June 24, 25, 26 1998, Genoa

Date: Fri, 01 Mar 1996 13:43:54 -0800
From: Helen Couclelis 
Subject: Spatial Technologies, Geographic Information, and the City: a Research Conference

SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT - Please note new application information. Deadline for
submissions is March 31, 1996.
______________________________________________

National Center for Geographic Information and Analysis

Spatial Technologies, Geographic Information, and the City
A Research Conference
Baltimore, September 9-11, 1996

Spatial technologies, that is, the complex of new transportation,
communication, and information technologies, are rapidly  changing spatial
relations in today's cities.  The appearance of  "Edge Cities" on the
periphery of  metropolitan areas, and the experiments with Intelligent
Transportation Systems, have already captured a lot of public attention. But
spatial technologies also affect accessibility conditions for different
activities and population groups, as well as the urban structure itself, in
ways that are not as visible and often very difficult to gauge.  The
conference will explore the ways in which these technologies are both
transforming our cities and, in the case of information technologies in
particular, also expanding our ability to plan for these changes.  A
specific focus will be on the role of geographic information technologies in
enabling us to deal with changing conditions of accessibility,  distance,
and spatial interaction in urban environments.  This is a critical but as
yet little researched area.  We will review the current state of knowledge
on these issues, chart potential research directions, and focus on the ways
in which planners and policy-makers might respond to these new developments.
We see geographic information science and technology playing a significant
role in bringing together those working in this complex area, in particular,
experts in urban geography and planning, urban transportation and
telecommunications, urban sociology and service provision, and GIS.  To this
end, the conference will address the following broad questions: 

ˇ  What changes in accessibility are brought about by spatial technologies
affecting spatial interactions in cities?
 
ˇ  How do these changes affect different geographically or socially defined
urban population groups?
 
ˇ How can geographic information science and technology be used to help
identify, measure, model, and plan for the impacts of changing spatial
technology on the city?

Within these broad themes, the following more specific questions may be
addressed :

Relating to changing conditions of urban accessibility and their impacts:

 - What empirical evidence is available to support the widely conjectured
changes in urban accessibility brought about by the increasingly widespread
use of communication and information technologies?

- How are urban land use and structure, at different geographic scales,
responding to the changes in access brought about by modern spatial
technologies?

- How can land use and transportation models be adapted to reflect the
substitutive, complementary, or synergistic effects of new spatial technologies?

- What empirical work is available documenting how access (and lack of
access) to information and opportunities is practically experienced by
traditionally disadvantaged 
urban populations (inner city residents, the aged, working mothers, etc.)?

- How will advanced spatial technologies, especially electronic information
networks, change conditions of access to employment opportunities for
geographically localized, disadvantaged urban populations?

- In the context of urban service delivery, to what extent will the new
spatial technologies be substitutive, complementary, or synergistic relative
to one another and to the more traditional ways of bringing information and
services to urban populations?

- What are the trends in the electronic delivery and use of retail, library,
and other services, and what are the positive (e.g., improved access) and
negative (e.g., further competitive disadvantages, job losses) impacts on
urban populations?

Relating to the role of geographic information science and technology:

- What new conceptual or formal models need to be developed to capture
changing notions of distance and access, and how can these be most usefully
implemented in GIS?

- What kinds of data will be needed to implement the necessary concepts and
models, how will these be collected, and how will they be accessed and
synthesized?

- How can GIS-based systems handling aspects of the urban access issue be
fruitfully interfaced with other relevant technologies (especially the
National Information Infrastructure), as well as with the informal,
socially-based information networks?

- What current uses of GIS in urban planning and transportation, policy
making, and management are relevant to the access issue?  Which are the
institutional structures, agencies and stages within the urban policy
process where GIS can make the most positive contribution to the problem of
access?

- Who will be the main users and managers of GIS-based systems intended to
contribute to the improvement of urban access conditions for disadvantaged
populations?  What are the user needs, professional and managerial as well
as among the public at large, with respect to such technologies?

The Conference will be sponsored by the National Center for Geographic
Information and Analysis (NCGIA).  We are planning for a meeting of  35-40
scholars who will contribute research notes to be circulated to all
participants prior to the meeting.  The conference itself will include both
plenary and small-group discussion sessions, and hands-on workshops.  Its
goal is two-fold: (a) to prepare for the formulation of  a research agenda
identifying major themes and funding opportunities for concerted research
efforts, and (b), to plan for an edited book summarizing the state of
knowledge and outlining the major issues in the general subject area of the
conference.

Research notes of about 2,000 words, presenting empirical or theoretical
work or reviewing the state of knowledge in the areas of interest to the
conference, should be sent to the following address by March 31, 1996, in
both hard-copy and electronic (e-mail) formats.  Notification of acceptance
will be issued on May 15.  An important selection criterion will be the
degree to which submissions integrate the three thematic dimensions of urban
accessibility, impact on populations, and geographic information. Research
notes should be accompanied by a brief resume and statement of the
applicant's research interests beyond those directly reflected in the note.

A number of fellowships of up to $500 ($750 for West Coast and overseas
applicants) will be available from the National Center for Geographic
Information and Analysis towards accommodation and reasonable travel costs.
Applications for funding must be included with the research note
submissions, along with a mention of any other sources from which additional
funding may be obtained.  Please quote lowest available economy fare.
Overseas fellowship recipients must use US air carriers.    

For further information please contact

Dr. Helen Couclelis
NCGIA and Department of Geography,
University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Phone: (805) 893 2196
Fax:    (805) 893 8617
email:	cook@ geog.ucsb.edu

Conference steering committee:
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Ron Abler (AAG), Mike Batty (University College, London), Helen Couclelis
(NCGIA/University of California, Santa Barbara), Ken Dueker (Portland State
University), Susan Hanson (Clark University),  Kingsley Haynes (George Mason
University).