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Towards a sustainable information society : deconstructing WSIS / edited by Jan Servaes & Nico Carpentier.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- European Consortium for Communications Research (Series)
- European Consortium for Communications Research, 1742-9420 ; vol. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Information society.
- Digital communications--Social aspects.
- Digital communications.
- Globalization--Social aspects.
- Globalization.
- Sustainable development.
- World Summit on the Information Society.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Intellect, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides. With the two-phased World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the United Nations attempted to stimulate the development of such tools. Simultaneously, the WSIS is a large-scale experiment in multistakeholderism. The objective was to create a
- Contents:
- Table of Contents; Foreword: Towards a New Democratic Lingua Franca: Opening Speech at the ECCR WSIS conference, European Parliament March 1, 2004; Introduction: Steps to Achieve a Sustainable Information Society; 1: The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society Participation; 2: Communication Governance and the Role of Civil Society: Reflections on Participation and the Changing Scope of Political Action; 3: Civil Society's Involvement in the WSIS Process: Drafting the Alter-Agenda; 4: WSIS and Organized Networks as New Civil Society Movements
- 5: How Civil Society Can Help Civil Society6: What Price the Information Society? A Candidate Country Perspective within the Context of the EU's Information Society Policies; 7: Peer-to-Peer: From Technology to Politics; 8: From Virtual to Everyday Life; 9: Shifting from Equity to Efficiency Rationales: Global Benefits Resulting from a Digital Solidarity Fund; 10: PSB as an Instrument of Implementing WSIS Aims; Afterword: Towards a Knowledge Society and Sustainable Development: Deconstructing the WSIS in the European Policy Context
- Recommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information SocietyNotes on Contributors
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786610477104
- 9781280477102
- 1280477105
- 9781841509471
- 1841509477
- OCLC:
- 476029268
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