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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.

Table of Contents:
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

About the Author :
Nico Carpentier is a media sociologist working at the Communication Studies Departments of the Catholic University of Brussels (KUB) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He is co-director of the KUB research centre CSC and member of the VUB research centre CEMESCO. He is also a board member of the ECCR. Jan Servaes is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland, and was President of the European Consortium For Communications Research (ECCR) and Vice-President of the International Association of Media and Communications Research (IAMCR) from 2000 to 2004.


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  • ISBN-13: 9781841509471
  • Publisher: Intellect
  • Publisher Imprint: Intellect Books
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 221
  • Sub Title: Deconstructing WSIS
  • ISBN-10: 1841509477
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2006
  • Binding: Digital download
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: European Communication Research and Education Association


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