Towards a Sustainable Information Society : Deconstructing WSIS.
Title:
Towards a Sustainable Information Society : Deconstructing WSIS.
Author:
Carpentier, Nico.
ISBN:
9781841509471
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (221 pages)
Contents:
Front Cover -- Preliminary Pages -- Table of Contents -- Foreword: Towards a New Democratic Lingua Franca: Opening Speech at the ECCR WSIS conference, European Parliament March 1, 2004 -- Introduction: Steps to Achieve a Sustainable Information Society -- 1: The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society Participation -- 2: Communication Governance and the Role of Civil Society: Reflections on Participation and the Changing Scope of Political Action -- 3: Civil Society's Involvement in the WSIS Process: Drafting the Alter-Agenda -- 4: WSIS and Organized Networks as New Civil Society Movements -- 5: How Civil Society Can Help Civil Society -- 6: What Price the Information Society? A Candidate Country Perspective within the Context of the EU's Information Society Policies -- 7: Peer-to-Peer: From Technology to Politics -- 8: From Virtual to Everyday Life -- 9: Shifting from Equity to Efficiency Rationales: Global Benefits Resulting from a Digital Solidarity Fund -- 10: PSB as an Instrument of Implementing WSIS Aims -- Afterword: Towards a Knowledge Society and Sustainable Development: Deconstructing the WSIS in the European Policy Context -- Recommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information Society -- Notes on Contributors -- Back Cover.
Abstract:
The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides. With the two-phased World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the United Nations attempted to stimulate the development of such tools. Simultaneously, the WSIS is a large-scale experiment in multistakeholderism. The objective was to create a more balanced decision-making process that would allow the voices of civil society and business actors to be heard in international politics. This book aims to evaluate the potentialities of both the Information Society, and the WSIS in supporting and constructing more democratic, just and developed societies. It is the second book arising from the intellectual work of European Consortium for Communications Research members.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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