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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 na...
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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 more balanced decision-making process that would allow the voices of civil society and business actors to be heard in international politics. This book aims to evaluate the potentialities of both the Information Society, and the WSIS in supporting and constructing more democratic, just and developed societies. It is the second book arising from the intellectual work of European Consortium for Communications Research members.
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Publisher: Intellect Books
Imprint: Intellect Books
Publication Date: 01 January 2006
ISBN: 9781841509471
Format: eBook
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Digital and Information technology: general topics, Politics and government, Communication studies, Cultural studies
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1 Bart Staes:

   Foreword: Towards a New Democratic Lingua Franca 

 

5 Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier:

   Introduction:

   Steps to Achieve a Sustainable Information Society

 

17 Bart Cammaerts & Nico Carpentier:

     1: The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society 

         Participation

 

51 Claudia Padovani & Arjuna Tuzzi:

     2: Communication Governance and the Role of Civil Society. Reflections on Participation and the 

         Changing Scope of Political Action 

 

81 Divina Frau Meigs:

     3: Civil Society's Involvement in the WSIS Process. Drafting the Alter-agenda

 

97 Ned Rossiter:

     4: WSIS and Organized Networks as New Civil Society Movements 

 

117 Stefano Martelli:

       5: How Civil Society Can Help Civil Society 

 

129 Miyase Christensen:

       6: What Price the Information Society? A Candidate Country Perspective within the Context of

            the EU's Information Society Policies

 

151 Michel Bauwens:

       7: Peer-to-Peer: From Technology to Politics 

 

169 Paul Verschueren:

       8: From Virtual to Everyday Life

 

185 Claudio Antonio Feijóo González, José Luis Gómez Barroso, Ana Laguía González, Sergio Ramos Villaverde, David Rojo Alonso: 

       9: Shifting from Equity to Efficiency Rationales: Global Benefits Resulting from a Digital

           Solidarity Fund

 

195 Barbara Thomass:

       10: PSB as an Instrument of Implementing WSIS Aims

 

203 Afterword

       Peter Johnston

       Towards a Knowledge Society and Sustainable Development.

       Deconstructing the WSIS in the European Policy Context

 

207 ECCR:

       Recommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information 

       Society

 

211 Notes on Contributors