A Reality Check 2003

by Jan Servaes

Overview

After explaining what is and is not the European Information Society, researchers in information, communications, and sociology from across the continent discuss discourses, politics, and findings about it; then look in detail as such aspects as business issues facing new media, the political internet, and new roles for users in online news media. Conclusions ponder human capital and digital citizenship. There is no index. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781841501062
Publisher:	Intellect, Limited
Publication date:	08/01/2003
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Jan Servaes is the UNESCO Chair in Communication for Sustainable Social Change at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Table of Contents

	By way of introduction	5
	Introducing the issue
1.	The European Information Society: A wake-up call	11
	Checking discourses, policies, and findings
2.	European Union ICT Policies: Neglected Social and Cultural Dimensions	33
3.	Policy challenges to the creation of a European Information Society: A critical analysis	59
4.	Issues in measuring Information Society adoption in Europe	87
5.	Access and participation in the discourse of the digital divide: The European perspective at/on the WSIS	99
6.	Communication Rights and the European Information Society	121
	Checking in more detail
7.	Business Issues facing New Media	149
8.	Perspectives for Employment in the Transition to a Knowledge Society	165
9.	The Political Internet: Between dogma and reality	177
10.	New roles for users in online news media? Exploring the application of interactivity through European case studies	205
	By way of conclusions
11.	Social and Human Capital in the Knowledge Society: Policy implications	225
12.	Digital citizenship and information inequalities: Challenges for the future	231
	List of acronyms	239
	Note on contributors	241