LEADER 04049nam 2200709Ia 450 001 9910826949003321 005 20240515164705.0 010 $a1-280-47710-5 010 $a9786610477104 010 $a1-84150-947-7 035 $a(CKB)1000000000338314 035 $a(EBL)283056 035 $a(OCoLC)476029268 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000260626 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11244730 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000260626 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10224064 035 $a(PQKB)11592401 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC283056 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL283056 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10146726 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL47710 035 $a(OCoLC)62147372 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000338314 100 $a20051025d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aTowards a sustainable information society $edeconstructing WSIS /$fedited by Jan Servaes & Nico Carpentier 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBristol $cIntellect$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (221 p.) 225 1 $aEuropean Consortium for Communications Research,$x1742-9420 ;$vvol. 2 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-84150-133-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTable 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 327 $a5: 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 327 $aRecommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information SocietyNotes on Contributors 330 $aThe Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides. With the two-phased World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the United Nations attempted to stimulate the development of such tools. Simultaneously, the WSIS is a large-scale experiment in multistakeholderism. The objective was to create a 410 0$aEuropean Consortium for Communications Research (Series) 606 $aInformation society 606 $aDigital communications$xSocial aspects 606 $aGlobalization$xSocial aspects 606 $aSustainable development 615 0$aInformation society. 615 0$aDigital communications$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aGlobalization$xSocial aspects. 615 0$aSustainable development. 676 $a303.4833 701 $aServaes$b Jan$f1952-$01646102 701 $aCarpentier$b Nico$0803036 712 02$aEuropean Consortium for Communications Research. 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910826949003321 996 $aTowards a sustainable information society$94069617 997 $aUNINA