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Shaping the network society : the new role of civil society in cyberspace / edited by Douglas Schuler and Peter Day

Schuler, Douglas ; Day, Peter

DIAC (Conference)g(7th, 2000, Seattle, Wash.)

Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, c2004

Online Ressource (x, 433 p.) : maps.

Englisch

"An outgrowth of the Seventh DIAC symposium held in Seattle in 2000"--Introd. - Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index. - Description based on print version record

Erscheint auch als: Shaping the network society. - Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, ©2004 (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-262-28325-0 (electronic bk.); 0-262-28325-5 (electronic bk.)

1-4175-6179-3 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-4175-6179-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 0-262-19497-X (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 57183820 (aus SWB)     

Online-Ausg.

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang über Aggregator-Datenbank (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

HM851

303.4833 ; 303.48/33     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: COM032000 ; bisacsh: COM 032000

LOC-SH: Information technology -- Social aspects ; Computer networks -- Social aspects ; Social participation ; Civil society ; Computer networks -- Social aspects ; Information technology -- Social aspects ; Electronic books

Electronic books ; Social participation ; COMPUTERS ; Information Technology ; Civil society ; Computer networks ; Social aspects ; Information technology ; Social aspects

Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. The authors contributing to Shaping the Network Society describe how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges. In their vision, computer professionals are concerned less with bits, bytes, and algorithms and more with productive partnerships that engage both researchers and community activists. These collaborations are producing important sociotechnical work that will affect the future of the network society. Traditionally, academic research on real-world users of technology has been neglected or even discouraged. The authors contributing to this book are working to fill this gap; their theoretical and practical discussions illustrate a new orientation -- research that works with people in their natural social environments, uses common language rather than rarefied academic discourse, and takes a pragmatic perspective. The topics they consider are key to democratization and social change. They include human rights in the "global billboard society"; public computing in Toledo, Ohio; public digital culture in Amsterdam; "civil networking" in the former Yugoslavia; information technology and the international public sphere; "historical archaeologies" of community networks; "technobiographical" reflections on the future; libraries as information commons; and globalization and media democracy, as illustrated by Indymedia, a global collective of independent media organizations

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Shaping the network society: opportunities and challenges / Douglas Schuler and Peter Day -- U.S. global cyberspace / Oliver Boyd-Barrett -- Shaping technology for the "good life": the technological imperative versus the social imperative / Gary Chapman -- Human rights in the global billboard society / Cees J. Hamelink -- A census of public computing in Toledo, Ohio / Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat -- A Polder model in cyberspace: Amsterdam public digital culture / Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens -- Community networks go virtual: tracing the evolution of ICT in Buenos Aires and Montevideo / Susana Finquelievich -- Civil networking in a hostile environment: experiences in the former Yugoslavia / Veran Matic -- Rethinking telecenters: microbanks and remittance flows- reflections from Mexico / Scott S. Robinson -- The role of community networks in shaping the network society: enabling people to develop their own projects / Fiorella de Cindio -- Information technology and the international public sphere / Craig Calhoun -- What do we need to know about the future we're creating? technobiographical reflections / Howard Rheingold -- Libraries: the information commons of civil society / Nancy Kranich -- The soil of cyberspace: historical archaeologies of the Blacksburg electronic village and the Seattle community network / David Silver -- Globalization and media democracy: the case of indymedia / Douglas Morris -- Prospects for a new public sphere / Peter Day and Douglas Schuler.