ISBN:
184334453X
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (1834 KB, 211 S.)
Edition:
1. Aufl.
Series Statement:
Chandos Information Professional Series
Parallel Title:
Print version The Internet, Power and Society : Rethinking the Power of the Internet to Change Lives
DDC:
302.231
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
An exciting challenge to how the internet and ICT have been understood in academia and popular culture and shows how important 'cultural' assumptions are in how we understand technology. The Internet, Power and Society argues that the way in which we view technology such as the internet owes much to older, historic views of the media and to 'issues' in contemporary society. Such perspectives are deeply rooted in a Western view of technology and the book concludes by offering a radically new perspective as to how the internet can change a society that is truly global in its application. An original approach to ICT and the Internet that challenges the orthodoxyVery topical subject matter - the book addresses many of the issues regarded of key import in high level political discussions (such as the World Summit on the Information Society); the current understanding of ICT and how to move beyond this interpretationAn approach that moves the debate forward and offers a truly global way of understanding the Internet and ICT
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; The Internet, Power and Society: Rethinking the power of the internet to change lives; Copyright; Contents; List of tables; About the author; Acknowledgements; List of acronyms; 1 Introduction; Theoretical foundations and general approach; Structure; Notes; Part I Understanding the internet; 2 Theories of technology and society; Introduction; Technology; The relationship between technology and society within modern discourse; Conclusion; Notes; 3 The idea of the internet; Introduction; The internet: different from other media; Web 2.0; The characteristics of the internet; Conclusion
Description / Table of Contents:
Notes4 The internet, politics and the public sphere; Introduction; New forms of communication and the public sphere; The internet and the public sphere; The counter-public of the internet?; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Politics and the role of the internet; Introduction; Conceptualising perspectives on the media; The liberal democratic perspective; The internet as small media; Critique of existing systems; Radical democratic; The internet as a form of radical media; Conclusion; Notes; Part II The internet and society; 6 Social form and media potency - the processes of modernisation; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Defining and understanding modernityModernity or modernities?; Modernity and the nation-state; Modernity and the mass media; Late- or reflexive-modernity and the individualisation of society; The internet as a technology of individualism; Conclusion; 7 The internet and society: reconsidering the link; Introduction; The argument so far…; Social systems and the active nature of the internet; The internet as facilitator; The internet as accelerant; The contingent nature of the internet; Methodological standpoint; Notes; Conclusion; 8 Conclusion; Introduction; Summation of argument
Description / Table of Contents:
Key consequenceSuggestions for further work: research methods; Fields of application: information and communication technologies for development; Fields of application: media studies; Concluding remarks; References; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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