ISBN:
0415955718
,
9781136489921
,
9780415955713
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (ix, 157 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge research in information technology and society 13
Parallel Title:
Print version A Normative Theory of the Information Society
DDC:
303.48/3301
Keywords:
Information technology Social aspects
;
Information society
Abstract:
There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescriptive theory to help to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the future shape of emerging post-industrial, information-based societies. He argues that information policy needs to become anchored in a left-liberal philosophy which foregrounds a feasible permutation of the core ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood. The information society, if it is to be worth having at all, cannot be allowed to be largely the outcome of the
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; A Normative Theory of the Information Society ; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. The Need for a Normative Theory of the Information Society; 1 The Matrix of Information Society Studies; 2 The Normative Crisis of the Information Society; 3 Political/Philosophical Reactions: Utopian, Conservative and Critical; 4 Defence of the Journalistic Conception of Information; 2. Reloading Social Democracy: A Rawls-Tawney Synthesis; 1 Two Key Thinkers for an Age of Crisis; 2 Deontological Foundations of Information Policy; 3 Principles of Justice: The Convergence of Rawls and Tawney
Description / Table of Contents:
4 The Informatisation of Ethical Social Democracy3. On the Social Distribution of Information and News; 1 First Principle of Information Justice: An Open Polity; 2 Second Principle of Information Justice: Sharing Our Wares; 3 Illustration: Differential Access to News-Information; 4 Indicative Institutional Outcomes of the Rawls-Tawney Theorem; 4. Social Engineering: Industrial and Post-Industrial ; 1 The Troubled Soul of Social Engineering; 2 Case Study: The British School of Social Engineering; 3 The Philosophy of the Proactive State; 4 Computopia: Rudiments of Post-Industrial Teleology
Description / Table of Contents:
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Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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