04146nam 2200637Ia 450 991026064530332120200520144314.01-282-09613-30-262-25581-297866120961361-4294-5540-3(CKB)1000000000470406(OCoLC)320323023(CaPaEBR)ebrary10173670(SSID)ssj0000119739(PQKBManifestationID)11132354(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000119739(PQKBWorkID)10072856(PQKB)10796766(MiAaPQ)EBC3338611(CaBNVSL)mat06267228(IDAMS)0b000064818b41ba(IEEE)6267228(OCoLC)1170056599(OCoLC-P)1170056599(MaCbMITP)1783(PPN)258831804(EXLCZ)99100000000047040620060222d2006 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrChange of state information, policy, and power /Sandra BramanCambridge, MALondon MIT20061 online resource (570 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-262-51324-2 0-262-02597-3 Includes bibliographical references (p. [419]-527) and index.An introduction to information policy -- Forms and phases of power : the bias of the informational state -- Bounding the domain : information policy for the twenty-first century -- Constitutional principles and the informational spaces they create -- Information policy and identity -- Information policy and structure -- Information policy and borders -- Information policy and change -- Information, policy, and power in the informational state.As the informational state replaces the bureaucratic welfare state, control over information creation, processing, flows, and use has become the most effective form of power. In Change of State Sandra Braman examines the theoretical and practical ramifications of this "change of state." She looks at the ways in which governments are deliberate, explicit, and consistent in their use of information policy to exercise power, exploring not only such familiar topics as intellectual property rights and privacy but also areas in which policy is highly effective but little understood. Such lesser-known issues include hybrid citizenship, the use of "functionally equivalent borders" internally to allow exceptions to U.S. law, research funding, census methods, and network interconnection. Trends in information policy, argues Braman, both manifest and trigger change in the nature of governance itself.After laying the theoretical, conceptual, and historical foundations for understanding the informational state, Braman examines 20 information policy principles found in the U.S Constitution. She then explores the effects of U.S. information policy on the identity, structure, borders, and change processes of the state itself and on the individuals, communities, and organizations that make up the state. Looking across the breadth of the legal system, she presents current law as well as trends in and consequences of several information policy issues in each category affected.Change of State introduces information policy on two levels, coupling discussions of specific contemporary problems with more abstract analysis drawing on social theory and empirical research as well as law. Most important, the book provides a way of understanding how information policy brings about the fundamental social changes that come with the transformation to the informational state.Information policyUnited StatesCommunication policyUnited StatesInformation policyCommunication policy303.48/330973Braman Sandra1207769MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910260645303321Change of state2786368UNINA