Concepts such as knowledge society, information society, postmodern society, postindustrial society, internet society, network society, etc. fail to grasp the dialectic of continuity and discontinuity of society, they see the changes connected to new media as radical novelties and ignore the continuing dominance of capitalist structures. In order to stress that capital accumulation is transform...

Collaborative work groups that span multiple locations and time zones, or “follow the sun,” create a growing demand for creating new technologies and methodologies that enable traditional spatial and temporal separations to be surmounted in an effective and productive manner. The hurdles faced by members of such virtual teams are in three key areas: differences in concepts and terminologies use...