Anthony M Townsend
Biographic Data
| ID | 1322729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anthony M Townsend |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anthony M |
| FAMILY NAME | Townsend |
| SIGNATURE | TOWNSEND A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute for the Future |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6618-0794 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Examining the ethical underpinnings of universal basic income as a public health policy: Prophylaxis, social engineering and ‘good’ lives
At a time of COVID-19 pandemic, universal basic income (UBI) has been presented as a potential public health ‘upstream intervention’. Research indicates a possible impact on health by reducing poverty, fostering health-promoting behaviour and ameliorating biopsychosocial pathways to health. This novel case for UBI as a public health measure is starting to receive attention from a range of political positions and organisations. However, discussion…
Information Technology and the World of Work
Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but relatively little attention has been given to how changing technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This volume specifi cally examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have crea…
Cities of Data: Examining the New Urban Science
Since the very origins of urban planning in the late nineteenth century, the field has aspired to establish a firm scientific footing for the nature of cities, their cycles of growth and decline, and ways that we can better plan and predict the outcomes of interventions through design and policy. While these efforts have long been stymied by a lack of sufficiently detailed data and limited computing power, these obstacles are rapidly being overco…
Dispositional Factors in Internet Use: Personality Versus Cognitive Style1
This study directly tests the effect of personality and cognitive style on three measures of Internet use. The results support the use of personality—but not cognitive style—as an antecedent variable. After controlling for computer anxiety, self-efficacy, and gender, including the “Big Five” personality factors in the analysis significantly adds to the predictive capabilities of the dependent variables. Including cognitive style does not. The res…
The relationship of sustainability to telecommunications
Locative-Media Artists in the Contested-Aware City
The adoption of mobile devices as the computers of the 21st century marks a shift away from the fixed terminals that dominated the first 50 years of computing. Associated with this shift will be a new emphasis on context-aware computing. This article examines design approaches to context-aware computing and argues that the evolution of this technology will be characterized by an interplay between top-down systems for command and control and botto…
The Internet and the Rise of the New Network Cities, 1969–1999
The recent rapid growth of the Internet has avoided scrutiny from urban planners as little information is available from which to assess its impacts on cities and regions. As a result, explanations of the relationship between telecommunications and urban growth are overly simplistic, forecasting either the centralization of decision-making in so-called ‘global’ cities or wholesale urban dissolution. Based on two measurements of Internet geography…
Network Cities and the Global Structure of the Internet
Cities have played an important role in the process of globalization as centers for information exchange. Urban scholars note that a handful of dominant financial services centers-so-called global cities-has dominated international telecommunications networks. Yet, these and others have failed to understand how new telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, are enabling a far broader diffusion of international interurban connecti…
An Exploratory Study of Administrative Workers in the Arts: Are They Really Different from For-Profit Workers?
This study focuses on an exploration of value differences between administrative workers in the arts and workers in for-profit business organizations. Data were collected among both for-profit and arts workers to determine if there are differences in the things they value in the workplace. Analyses indicate that there are differences between the groups' work values. The managerial implications of the study are then discussed at length. Here has b…
Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism
(2000). Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 85-104
An examination of cross-national differences
article Free Access Share on An examination of cross-national differences Authors: Michael E. Whitman Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, GA Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, GAView Profile , Anthony M. Townsend Department of Management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Management, University of Nevada, Las VegasView Profile , Anthony R. H…
Tracking the net: Using domain names to measure the growth of the internet in U.S. cities
(1997). Tracking the net: Using domain names to measure the growth of the internet in U.S. cities. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 47-60
Network Cities and the Global Structure of the Internet
Cities have played an important role in the process of globalization as centers for information exchange. Urban scholars note that a handful of dominant financial services centers-so-called global cities-has dominated international telecommunications networks. Yet, these and others have failed to understand how new telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, are enabling a far broader diffusion of international interurban connecti…
Cities of Data: Examining the New Urban Science
Since the very origins of urban planning in the late nineteenth century, the field has aspired to establish a firm scientific footing for the nature of cities, their cycles of growth and decline, and ways that we can better plan and predict the outcomes of interventions through design and policy. While these efforts have long been stymied by a lack of sufficiently detailed data and limited computing power, these obstacles are rapidly being overco…
Locative-Media Artists in the Contested-Aware City
The adoption of mobile devices as the computers of the 21st century marks a shift away from the fixed terminals that dominated the first 50 years of computing. Associated with this shift will be a new emphasis on context-aware computing. This article examines design approaches to context-aware computing and argues that the evolution of this technology will be characterized by an interplay between top-down systems for command and control and botto…
The relationship of sustainability to telecommunications
Tracking the net: Using domain names to measure the growth of the internet in U.S. cities
(1997). Tracking the net: Using domain names to measure the growth of the internet in U.S. cities. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 4, No. 3, pp. 47-60
An examination of cross-national differences
article Free Access Share on An examination of cross-national differences Authors: Michael E. Whitman Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, GA Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, Kennesaw State University, GAView Profile , Anthony M. Townsend Department of Management, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Department of Management, University of Nevada, Las VegasView Profile , Anthony R. H…
An Exploratory Study of Administrative Workers in the Arts: Are They Really Different from For-Profit Workers?
This study focuses on an exploration of value differences between administrative workers in the arts and workers in for-profit business organizations. Data were collected among both for-profit and arts workers to determine if there are differences in the things they value in the workplace. Analyses indicate that there are differences between the groups' work values. The managerial implications of the study are then discussed at length. Here has b…
Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism
(2000). Life in the Real-Time City: Mobile Telephones and Urban Metabolism. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 85-104
The Internet and the Rise of the New Network Cities, 1969–1999
The recent rapid growth of the Internet has avoided scrutiny from urban planners as little information is available from which to assess its impacts on cities and regions. As a result, explanations of the relationship between telecommunications and urban growth are overly simplistic, forecasting either the centralization of decision-making in so-called ‘global’ cities or wholesale urban dissolution. Based on two measurements of Internet geography…
Network Cities and the Global Structure of the Internet
Cities have played an important role in the process of globalization as centers for information exchange. Urban scholars note that a handful of dominant financial services centers-so-called global cities-has dominated international telecommunications networks. Yet, these and others have failed to understand how new telecommunications technologies, particularly the Internet, are enabling a far broader diffusion of international interurban connecti…
The relationship of sustainability to telecommunications
Locative-Media Artists in the Contested-Aware City
The adoption of mobile devices as the computers of the 21st century marks a shift away from the fixed terminals that dominated the first 50 years of computing. Associated with this shift will be a new emphasis on context-aware computing. This article examines design approaches to context-aware computing and argues that the evolution of this technology will be characterized by an interplay between top-down systems for command and control and botto…
Dispositional Factors in Internet Use: Personality Versus Cognitive Style1
This study directly tests the effect of personality and cognitive style on three measures of Internet use. The results support the use of personality—but not cognitive style—as an antecedent variable. After controlling for computer anxiety, self-efficacy, and gender, including the “Big Five” personality factors in the analysis significantly adds to the predictive capabilities of the dependent variables. Including cognitive style does not. The res…
Cities of Data: Examining the New Urban Science
Since the very origins of urban planning in the late nineteenth century, the field has aspired to establish a firm scientific footing for the nature of cities, their cycles of growth and decline, and ways that we can better plan and predict the outcomes of interventions through design and policy. While these efforts have long been stymied by a lack of sufficiently detailed data and limited computing power, these obstacles are rapidly being overco…
Information Technology and the World of Work
Information technologies have become both a means and an end, transforming the workplace and how work is performed. This ongoing evolution in the work process has received extensive coverage but relatively little attention has been given to how changing technologies and work practices affect the workers themselves. This volume specifi cally examines the institutional and social environment of the workplaces that information technologies have crea…
Examining the ethical underpinnings of universal basic income as a public health policy: Prophylaxis, social engineering and ‘good’ lives
At a time of COVID-19 pandemic, universal basic income (UBI) has been presented as a potential public health ‘upstream intervention’. Research indicates a possible impact on health by reducing poverty, fostering health-promoting behaviour and ameliorating biopsychosocial pathways to health. This novel case for UBI as a public health measure is starting to receive attention from a range of political positions and organisations. However, discussion…
Computer Science (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Telecommunications (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Regional science (4 works) · The Internet (4 works) · World Wide Web (4 works)