| Reviews |
| - 'This book represents a unique combination of sound scholarship and relevant policy analysis. Researched and written by two leading academics, it informs and stimulates thinking on key issues of economic growth and social equity in the age of the Internet, mobile phones, and electronic services. It covers a broad range of technological, economic, and social issues with a focus on how society
actually uses new information technologies. It is essential reading for analysts and policy makers, as well as for anyone wanting to understand the transformation of our technological way of life, and making use of this knowledge for everyday life.' -
Manuel Castells, Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley and author of The Internet Galaxy
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| Description | | - A critical assessment of progress towards the Information Society
- Draws upon empirical research from the UK, The Netherlands, Italy, and France
- Engages with recent theoretical work in the field of science and technology policy
- Approaches the subject from different disciplinary perspectives
| Mobilizing the Information Society
comprehensively and critically examines the interaction between social, regulatory, and market developments underlying the growing use of new technologies such as the personal computer and the Internet. Based upon empirical research by an international team, it offers insights needed to understand public policy, corporate strategy, and individual choices
taken in response to the deluge of new technological opportunities.
A principal theme of Mobilizing the Information Society
is that changes are governed by public decisions that establish the institutional framework in which the private sector operates. The quality and value of the information society for the citizen is not the inevitable consequence of market and technological forces.
Policy choices, however, that fail to take market and technical influences into account will prove ineffective. The authors lay the foundation for improved theories of the process of change, more appropriate strategies to achieve desired aims, and more effective policies for mitigating the effects of dislocation and exclusion from the information society.
Mobilizing the Information Society
offers unique insights into the social, economic, and political forces that are structuring the pathway to the information society, and their consequences for businesses and citizens in their everyday lives.
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| Contents |
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acronyms
Prologue
1.
Competing Interests and Strategies in the Information Society
2.
Social Communities: Access and Users' Capabilities
3.
Transforming the Infrastructure Supporting the Information Society
4.
Chaos in Service Innovations and Applications
5.
Controlling Electronic Commerce Transactions
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R. Hawkins, R. Mansell, and W. E. Steinmueller
6.
Liberalization and the Process and Implications of Standardization
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R. Hawkins, R. Mansell, and W. E. Steinmueller
7.
Electronic Intellectual Property and Creative Knowledge Production
8.
Building Trust for Virtual Communities
9.
Locating the Consequences of Information Society Developments
10.
Recapitulating the Themes and Facing the Future
References
Subject Index
Name Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Robin Mansell, Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet, Interdepartmental Programme in Media and Communications, London School of Economics and Political Science and
W. Edward Steinmueller, Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex
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