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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin Mansell; W Edward Steinmueller |
ISBN: | 019829557X 0198295561 9780198295563 9780198295570 |
OCLC Number: | 767959514 |
Description: | 1 online resource (XXIII, 516 Seiten) : Diagramme |
Contents: | 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 ; 6. Liberalization and the Process and Implications of Standardization ; 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 |
Responsibility: | Robin Mansell and W. Edward Steinmueller. |
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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 foranalysts 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 * Read more...

