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Titolo: |
Towards a sustainable information society : deconstructing WSIS / / edited by Jan Servaes & Nico Carpentier
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Pubblicazione: | Bristol, : Intellect, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
Disciplina: | 303.4833 |
Soggetto topico: | Information society |
Digital communications - Social aspects | |
Globalization - Social aspects | |
Sustainable development | |
Altri autori: |
ServaesJan <1952->
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Towards a sustainable information society ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-280-47710-5 |
9786610477104 | |
1-84150-947-7 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910826949003321 |
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