04085nam 2200709Ia 450 991045080930332120200520144314.01-280-47710-597866104771041-84150-947-7(CKB)1000000000338314(EBL)283056(OCoLC)476029268(SSID)ssj0000260626(PQKBManifestationID)11244730(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260626(PQKBWorkID)10224064(PQKB)11592401(MiAaPQ)EBC283056(Au-PeEL)EBL283056(CaPaEBR)ebr10146726(CaONFJC)MIL47710(OCoLC)62147372(EXLCZ)99100000000033831420051025d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTowards a sustainable information society[electronic resource] deconstructing WSIS /edited by Jan Servaes & Nico CarpentierBristol Intellect20061 online resource (221 p.)European Consortium for Communications Research,1742-9420 ;vol. 2Description based upon print version of record.1-84150-133-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 Movements5: 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 ContextRecommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information SocietyNotes on ContributorsThe 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 European Consortium for Communications Research (Series)Information societyDigital communicationsSocial aspectsGlobalizationSocial aspectsSustainable developmentElectronic books.Information society.Digital communicationsSocial aspects.GlobalizationSocial aspects.Sustainable development.303.4833Servaes Jan1952-951730Carpentier Nico803036European Consortium for Communications Research.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910450809303321Towards a sustainable information society2151532UNINA