Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Schuler, Douglas.
• Day, Peter, 1954-
• DIAC (Conference) (7th : 2000 : Seattle, Wash.)

Description

x, 433 p. : maps; 24 cm.

Subjects

• Information technology > Social aspects
• Civil society
• Social participation
• Computer networks > Social aspects

Note

• "An outgrowth of the Seventh DIAC symposium held in Seattle in 2000"--Introd.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index.

Contents

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.

Call Number

JFE 04-12737

ISBN

026219497X (hc : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003065170

OCLC

53091439

Title

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

Imprint

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [377]-405) and index.

Added Author

Schuler, Douglas.

Day, Peter, 1954-

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

Research Call Number

JFE 04-12737