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 Work""""Market 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 Approach""""Having 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 Citizenship""""National 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 Library""""Does 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""