Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age / Edition 1

by William Dutton

Overview

Society on the Line presents a new way of thinking about the social and economic implications of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs). It offers a clear overview of information in the digital age, and explains how social and technical choices about ICTs influence access to information, people, services, and technologies themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198774600
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/15/1999
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1450L (what's this?)

About the Author

William H. Dutton, Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, was National Director of the UK's Programme on Information and Communication Technologies while a Visiting Professor at Brunel University. He is the author of Wired Cities and Computers and Politics.

Table of Contents

Part I. A New Perspective of the Information Revolution1. Introduction: Tele-Access - The Outcome of an Ecology of Games2. Information Politics, Technology and SocietyPart II. Social Dimensions of the Technical: Social, Cultural, and Political Processes Shaping Tele-Access3. Technologies Shaping Tele-Access: A Force for Social Change4. The Social Shaping of Tele-Access: Inventing our FuturesPart III. Tele-Access in Business, Management and Work5. The Reach and Boundaries of Business and Management: Virtual Organizations6. Redesigning the Workplace: Challenging Geographical and Cultural Constraints on AccessPart IV. Public Access in Politics, Governance, and Education7. Digital Democracy: Electronic Access to Politics and Services8. Knowledge Access: Reconfiguring Users and Producers in Teaching and ResearchPart V. The Virtual City: Shaping Access in Everyday Life9. The Intelligent Household: For Richer or Poorer10. Wiring the Global VillagePart VI. Industrial Strategies and Public Policies11. Regulating Access: Broadening the Policy Debate12. The Politics of Tele-Access: Social Relations in a Network SocietyGlossaryBibliography