| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 266 pages) : illustrations |
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Ingram Digital E-books (T & F), 2008-2014.
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| Summary |
The dramatic advances in computer and telecommunications technologies such as the Internet, virtual reality, smart cards or multimedia applications are increasingly regarded as ushering in a new form of society: the Information Society. Politicians, policy makers and business gurus are all encouraging us to join the information superhighway at the nearest junction or risk being excluded from the social and economic benefits of the information revolution. Cyberspace Divide critically considers the complex relationship between technological change, its effect upon social divisions, its consequences for social action and the emerging strategies for social inclusion in the Information Age. This book analyses issues of agency, autonomy and equality as they are affected by global communications networks and information technologies. The contributors discuss such themes as human interaction, ethical behaviour, power relationships and gender divisions as well as the growing disparity between the information rich and the information poor. Also contrasted are the policy formulations by nation-states and trading areas such as the EU and China.; Cyberspace Divide will be invaluable reading for those studying social policy, sociology, computing and communication studies. Brian D. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-255) and index. |
| Contents |
1. Cyberspace divide: equality, agency and policy in the information society / Brian D. Loader -- 2. Global networks and the myth of equality: trickle down or trickle away? / Trevor Haywood -- 3. Who are the world's information-poor? / Mike Holderness -- 4. The 'crisis' in the urban public realm / Alessandro Aurigi and Stephen Graham -- 5. Gender, agency, location and the new information society / Alison Adam and Eileen Green -- 6. Ethics @ the Internet: bilateral procedures in electronic communication / Duncan Langford -- 7. The Internet, virtual reality and real reality / Joe Ravetz -- 8. Why even scholars don't get a free lunch in cyberspace: my adventures with a tunnelvisionary / Steve Fuller. |
| Local Note |
EBSCOhost SocINDEX with Full Text |
| Subject |
Information society.
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Information technology -- Economic aspects.
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Information policy.
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Information resources management.
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Women -- Effect of technological innovations on.
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Social classes.
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Social policy.
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COMPUTERS -- Social Aspects -- General.
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Information policy. (OCoLC)fst00972596
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Information resources management. (OCoLC)fst00972603
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Information society. (OCoLC)fst00972767
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Information technology -- Economic aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00973097
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00973131
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Social classes. (OCoLC)fst01122346
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Social policy. (OCoLC)fst01122738
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Women -- Effect of technological innovations on.
(OCoLC)fst01176714
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| Added Author |
Loader, Brian, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cyberspace divide. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998 0415169682 (DLC) 97039491 (OCoLC)37489590 |
| ISBN |
0203169530 (electronic book) |
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9780203169537 (electronic book) |
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1280195606 |
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9781280195600 |
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0203285956 |
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9780203285954 |
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9786610195602 |
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6610195609 |
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9780415169684 |
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0415169682 |
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9780415169691 |
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0415169690 |
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0415169682 |
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0415169690 |
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