UID:
edocfu_9958095134302883
Format:
1 online resource (221 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-47710-5
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9786610477104
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1-84150-947-7
Series Statement:
European Consortium for Communications Research, vol. 2
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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
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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
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Recommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information SocietyNotes on Contributors
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-84150-133-6
Language:
English
