The Global Information Society

The Global Information Society
Author: William J. Martin
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2017-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351888889

Today, information and the technologies that store and disseminate it are producing deep-rooted and widespread changes in society - changes of the same magnitude as those that occurred during the Industrial Revolution. The purpose of this book is to give a complete picture of the information society by examining in detail the social, economic, political, and cultural roles of information and information technology. This book is effectively a second edition of the author's classic The Information Society. In it, the author illustrates the major trends in and inter-relationships between information, information and communication technologies, and the global economy and society. In tracing the direction of information-based change he reveals the implications for ordinary citizens, for the quality of everyday life, for economic and social activity, and examines the prospects of nations and trading blocs. This book provides a new way of looking at society, one that is essential for understanding social and economic structures and processes in the information age.

Internet and Society

Internet and Society
Author: Christian Fuchs
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2007-12-12
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1135898820

By outlining a social theory of the internet and the information society, this book demonstrates how the ecological, economic, political and cultural systems of contemporary society have been transformed by new information and communication technologies.

Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society

Handbook of Research on Cultural and Economic Impacts of the Information Society
Author: P. E. Thomas
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015
Genre: Information society
ISBN: 9781466685987

"This book brings together an international and interdisciplinary forum of scholars and researchers to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role that information plays in all aspects of modern society including law enforcement, democracy, governance, finance, rural development, and more"--

Theories of the Information Society

Theories of the Information Society
Author: Frank Webster
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2002
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780415282000

In the first edition of Theories of the Information Society Frank Webster set out to make sense of the information explosion, taking a sceptical look at what thinkers mean when they refer to the information society, and critically examining all the major post-war theories and approaches to informational development.

Human Rights in the Global Information Society

Human Rights in the Global Information Society
Author: Rikke Frank Jørgensen
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2006-06-16
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0262101157

Papers originally presented at the World Summit on the Information Society, November 2005.

Global Environmental Governance in the Information Age

Global Environmental Governance in the Information Age
Author: Jérôme Duberry
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2019-04-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351613537

This book examines the impact of current and emerging digital technologies on global environmental governance, and in particular on environmental civil society organizations. Technological innovations are constantly emerging: internet and social media platforms, blockchains, big data, and artificial intelligence are some of the most common or promising digital technologies of our times. Through case studies and the analysis of concrete applications of digital technologies, this book shows how these digital technologies can be deployed to support global environmental governance, and in particular a multi-stakeholder approach to the protection of the environment. It provides an overview of the diverse uses of these digital technologies by civil society organizations (CSOs) in global environmental governance. In this fast-changing context, the capacity of environmental CSOs to manage and benefit from digital technologies, and to produce and distribute information, can strengthen their participation in global environmental governance. Their key roles, including advocacy, monitoring, knowledge production, fundraising, nudging individual behaviors, and project implementation, greatly benefit from the use of these technologies. By examining some of the most-utilized current digital technologies and presenting some of the most prominent emerging ones, this book aims to illustrate how active civil society organizations operate, and how ICTs support some of their roles, and therefore their participation in global environmental governance. This book will appeal to scholars and students of environmental studies and politics, global governance, political sociology, geography and communication studies along with policy makers and communication specialists from the environmental community.

Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South
Author: Arul Chib
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2015-04-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9812873813

The second volume in the SIRCA book series investigates the impact of information society initiatives by extending the boundaries of academic research into the realm of practice. Global in scope, it includes contributions and research projects from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The international scholarly community has taken a variety of approaches to question the impact of information society initiatives on populations in the Global South. This book addresses two aspects— Impact of research: How is the research on ICTs in the Global South playing a role in creating an information society? (e.g. policy formulation, media coverage, implementation in practice) and Research on impact: What is the evidence for the impact of ICTs on society? (i.e. the objectives of socio-economic development). This volume brings together a multiplicity of voices and approaches from social scientific research to produce an engaging volume for a variety of stakeholders including academics, researchers, practitioners, policy-makers and those in the business and civil sectors of society.

The Rise of the Network Society

The Rise of the Network Society
Author: Manuel Castells
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2011-08-24
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1444356313

This first book in Castells' groundbreaking trilogy, with a substantial new preface, highlights the economic and social dynamics of the information age and shows how the network society has now fully risen on a global scale. Groundbreaking volume on the impact of the age of information on all aspects of society Includes coverage of the influence of the internet and the net-economy Describes the accelerating pace of innovation and social transformation Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe