Electronic Value Exchange: Origins of the Visa Electronic Payment System 2011 Edition Contributor(s): Stearns, David L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1849961387 ISBN-13: 9781849961387 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $189.99 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2011 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Computers | History - Computers | Computer Science - Computers | Data Processing |
Dewey: 332.178 |
LCCN: 2011281170 |
Series: History of Computing |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.22 lbs) 240 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Electronic Value Exchange examines in detail the transformation of the VISA electronic payment system from a collection of non-integrated, localized, paper-based bank credit card programs into the cooperative, global, electronic value exchange network it is today. Topics and features: provides a history of the VISA system from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s; presents a historical narrative based on research gathered from personal documents and interviews with key actors; investigates, for the first time, both the technological and social infrastructures necessary for the VISA system to operate; supplies a detailed case study, highlighting the mutual shaping of technology and social relations, and the influence that earlier information processing practices have on the way firms adopt computers and telecommunications; examines how "gateways" in transactional networks can reinforce or undermine established social boundaries, and reviews the establishment of trust in new payment devices. |