Robin Mansell, W Edward Steinmueller

Mobilizing the Information Society

Strategies for Growth and Opportunity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a critical assessment of progress towards the Information Society. Drawing upon unique empirical data, this book lays the foundation for more useful theories of the process of change, and more effective strategies and policies for increasing the benefits from the Information Society. The authors provide insights into the social, economic, and political forces that are structuring the pathway to the Information Society-and its consequences for business and individuals in their everyday lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 934g
• ISBN-13: 9780198295563
• ISBN-10: 0198295561
• Artikelnr.: 21158532

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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