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My major research projects during the last decade have focused in documenting the impact, which the expanding involvement of information and communication technologies have had on organizational and institutional processes. Software technology has been analyzed by using the conceptual and methodological apparatus of structural and post-structural linguistics and semiotics and through empirical analysis (case studies) of context-embedded forms of cognition and problem solving.

More recently my focus has shifted on the institutional implications of current technological changes as they are manifested on the explosive growth of information and the making of the internet and other large scale information infrastructures into central components of contemporary life. These developments participate in what I call the computational rendition of reality as distinct from the notion of virtualization that has so far dominated the relevant literature. The reconstitution of reality as software code combines with the deepening interoperability of a large variety of information sources to create an entirely new habitat within which contemporary economic and institutional structures develop. These developments have far reaching implications for governments, organizations and individuals as they create new architectures of control and communication on a global scale. These ideas are developed on number of recent publications which you can find in this website and are summarized in a forthcoming (November 2006) book of mine published by ELGAR and entitled The Consequences of Information: Institutional Implications of Technological Change.