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Shaping the network society : the new role of civil society in cyberspace
- 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, ©2004.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HM851 .S43 2004 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 433 pages : maps; 24 cm
- Summary
- Information and computer technologies are used every day by real people with real needs. This text describes how technology can be used effectively by communities, activists, and citizens to meet society's challenges.
- Subject
- Information technology > Social aspects
- Computer networks > Social aspects
- Social participation
- Civil society
- Computer networks > Social aspects > Congresses
- Social participation > Congresses
- Civil society > Congresses
- Social Participation
- Réseaux informatiques
- Technologies de l'information et de la communication
- Société de l'information
- Aspects sociaux
- Société civile
- Participation sociale
- Cyberspace
- Informationsgesellschaft
- Internationaler Vergleich
- Sozialer Wandel
- Öffentlichkeit
- Informatietechnologie
- Computernetwerken
- Sociale aspecten
- Politieke aspecten
- Maatschappelijk middenveld
- Genre/Form
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- 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, 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, Abdul Alkalimat -- A Polder model in cyberspace: Amsterdam public digital culture / Geert Lovink, 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, Douglas Schuler.
- ISBN
- 026219497X
- 9780262194976
- 0262513846
- 9780262513845
- 9780262283250
- 0262283255
- LCCN
- 2003065170
- OCLC
- ocm53091439
- 53091439
- SCSB-8806951
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library