Shaping the network society : the new role of civil society in cyberspace /

Corporate Author: DIAC (Conference)
Other Authors: Schuler, Douglas.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2004.
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Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=122548
Table of Contents:
  • Shaping the network society: opportunities and challenges / Douglas Schuler and Peter Day
  • U.S. global cyberspace / Oliver Boyd-Barrett
  • Shaping technology for the "good life": the technological imperative versus the social imperative / Gary Chapman
  • Human rights in the global billboard society / Cees J. Hamelink
  • A census of public computing in Toledo, Ohio / Kate Williams and Abdul Alkalimat
  • A Polder model in cyberspace: Amsterdam public digital culture / Geert Lovink and Patrice Riemens
  • Community networks go virtual: tracing the evolution of ICT in Buenos Aires and Montevideo / Susana Finquelievich
  • Civil networking in a hostile environment: experiences in the former Yugoslavia / Veran Matic
  • Rethinking telecenters: microbanks and remittance flows- reflections from Mexico / Scott S. Robinson
  • The role of community networks in shaping the network society: enabling people to develop their own projects / Fiorella de Cindio
  • Information technology and the international public sphere / Craig Calhoun
  • What do we need to know about the future we're creating? technobiographical reflections / Howard Rheingold
  • Libraries: the information commons of civil society / Nancy Kranich
  • The soil of cyberspace: historical archaeologies of the Blacksburg electronic village and the Seattle community network / David Silver
  • Globalization and media democracy: the case of indymedia / Douglas Morris
  • Prospects for a new public sphere / Peter Day and Douglas Schuler.