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The European information society : a reality check 2003 / edited by Jan Servaes

Servaes, Jan,i1952-

Bristol : Intellect, 2003

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (187 pages)

European Consortium for Communications Research,

Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178)

1-84150-893-4 ; 978-1-84150-893-1 ; 1-84150-106-9

 

This series consists of books arising from the intellectual work of ECCR members. The globalisation of social, cultural and economic relations is facilitated, and at the same time conditioned by developments in the information and communications technologies (ICT) and infrastructure. Human knowledge brought mankind from an oral to a literate culture, thanks to the invention of the print media. The development of the electronic media in the last century paved the path for the information age, in which spatial and temporal constraints are lifted. ''In every society, the production, distribution.