Towards a sustainable information society : deconstructing WSIS /
The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools...
Автор-организации: | European Consortium for Communications Research. |
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Други автори: | Servaes, Jan, 1952- (Editor), Carpentier, Nico, (Editor) |
Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Bristol :
Intellect,
2006.
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Серия: |
European Consortium for Communications Research (Series)
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=141755 |
Подобни документи: |
Print version::
Towards a sustainable information society. |
Резюме: |
The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides. With the two-phased World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the United Nations attempted to stimulate the development of such tools. Simultaneously, the WSIS is a large-scale experiment in multistakeholderism. The objective was to create a. |
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Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (215 pages). |
Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: |
1841509477 9781841509471 |
ISSN: |
1742-9420 ; |