Mobilizing the Information Society

Strategies for Growth and Opportunity
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-19-829557-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 540 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 824 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mansell, Robin

Steinmueller, W. Edward

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Wirtschaftsinformatik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Massenmedien & Massenkommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Verbale & Nonverbale Kommunikationsprozesse
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik EDV & Informatik Allgemein Soziale und ethische Aspekte der EDV
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Wirtschaftsmathematik und -statistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Digitale Medien, Internet, Telekommunikation
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Interkulturelle Kommunikation & Interaktion
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Public Relations
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationsmanagement, Public Relations

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Robin Mansell holds the Dixons Chair in New Media and the Internet within the Interdepartmental Programme in Media and Communications (Media@lse), London School of Economics and Political Science.

W. Edward Steinmueller is Professor of Information and Communication Technology Policy at SPRU, University of Sussex, where he directs the Information, Networks & Knowledge Research Centre.