Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction: Competing Visions: The Social Impact of Information and Communications Technology
  • Perspectives on the Information Society
  • Forthcoming Features: Information and Communications Technologies and the Sociology of the Future
  • Illusions of Perfect Information and Fantasies of Control in the Information Society
  • Software Industry, Religious Nationalism, and Social Movements in India: Aspects of Globalization?
  • Labouring to Be a Citizen: Trade Unions, Public Interest and Cyber-Populism in India
  • Imagining the Knowledge-Based Economy: Soon-to-be Labour Force Entrants Predict the Future of WorkMarket Knowledge and the Good Citizen
  • Neo-Liberalizing Welfare: Politics and Information Technology in a New Era of Governance
  • Defining the Canadian DNA Data Bank: A Sociological Perspective
  • ICTs in Dutch Schools: Problems, Prospects and Promises
  • Competing Interests: Censorship and Access to Information
  • International Communication and the Extremist Right
  • The Harm of Hate Propaganda
  • Censorship in Library Collection Development Practices and Civic Participation: A Theoretical ApproachHaving a Cow: Reactions To Veggie Libel Laws and the Oprah Trials
  • Risk and the Internet: Perception and Reality
  • Concentration of Ownership in the Information World
  • Universal Access in IHAC and NIIAC: Transformed Narrative and Meaning in Information Policy
  • Saving Books from the Market: Price Maintenance Policies in the United States and Europe
  • Books and Commerce in an Age of Virtual Capital: The Changing Political Economy of Bookselling
  • Copyright and CitizenshipNational Public Radio: The Case for Normative Mission in the Marketplace
  • Citizenship and Democracy
  • Human Rights in the Information Society: Civic Participation in Shaping the Future
  • Networks for Social Knowledge: The Anti-NAFTA Challenge
  • Globalization, Information Society and Social Movement
  • Web Sites of Resistance: Internetworking and Civil Society
  • The Citizen's Right To Communicate
  • Crossing the Great Divide: Connecting Citizens to Government in New South Wales, Australia
  • Jacques and Jill at VPL: Citizenship and the Use of the Internet at Vancouver Public LibraryDoes a Networked Society Foster Participatory Democracy Or is Commitment to Place-based Community Still a Necessity for Civic Engagement?
  • Access to U.S. Federal Government Information for People with Disabilities: An Analysis of the Legal Requirements, Interpretations, and Implications
  • Remapping the Canadian North: Nunavut, Communications and Inuit Participatory Development
  • Bush and Bureaucrats: Women's Civic Participation from the Australian Outback
  • The Contributors