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Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South

Author : Arul Chib
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9812873813
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book Impact of Information Society Research in the Global South written by Arul Chib and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-15 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Mobilizing the Information Society

Author : Robin Mansell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191500135
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing the Information Society written by Robin Mansell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-10-26 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobilizing the Information Society comprehensively and critically examines the interaction between social, regulatory, and market developments underlying the growing use of new technologies such as the personal computer and the Internet. Based upon empirical research by an international team, it offers insights needed to understand public policy, corporate strategy, and individual choices taken in response to the deluge of new technological opportunities. A principal theme of Mobilizing the Information Society is that changes are governed by public decisions that establish the institutional framework in which the private sector operates. The quality and value of the information society for the citizen is not the inevitable consequence of market and technological forces. Policy choices, however, that fail to take market and technical influences into account will prove ineffective. The authors lay the foundation for improved theories of the process of change, more appropriate strategies to achieve desired aims, and more effective policies for mitigating the effects of dislocation and exclusion from the information society. Mobilizing the Information Society offers unique insights into the social, economic, and political forces that are structuring the pathway to the information society, and their consequences for businesses and citizens in their everyday lives.

Intergenerational Pathways to a Sustainable Society

Author : Matthew Kaplan
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319470191
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (194 download)

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Download or read book Intergenerational Pathways to a Sustainable Society written by Matthew Kaplan and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-26 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores intergenerational practices and their impact on social sustainability, with an emphasis on developing programmatic efforts to address profound social challenges such as underperforming educational and work-related systems, failing support systems for dependent or vulnerable populations, and community renewal and regeneration efforts. To this end, the core argument is to present issues related to age, aging, and generations, not only as problems, but as catalysts to facilitate improved quality of life for all generations. For societies to be sustainable, all generations must coexist at any given time and across time (non-contemporary generations). Hence, the ultimate vision presented here is one of intergenerational sustainability as both a conceptual tool and as a call for action. Intergenerational pathways are introduced as strategies for improving health and well-being across the lifespan, strengthening families, improving under-performing educational and work-related systems, and helping to build more cohesive, caring communities. Reviewing some of the historical factors and developments influencing intergenerational studies, as well as presenting regional case studies and comparative research, this book presents successful models that may be applied to everyday multigenerational practices in institutions such as education, family life, housing, healthcare, employment, and community development. The result is an accessible resource for students, academics, policymakers, community leaders, and citizens concerned with creating opportunities amidst challenging demographic and social changes.

Pathways to the Information Society

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780444864642
Total Pages : 1016 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Pathways to the Information Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 1016 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pathways for Peace

Author : United Nations;World Bank
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464811865
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Pathways for Peace written by United Nations;World Bank and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2018-04-13 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violent conflicts today are complex and increasingly protracted, involving more nonstate groups and regional and international actors. It is estimated that by 2030—the horizon set by the international community for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals—more than half of the world’s poor will be living in countries affected by high levels of violence. Information and communication technology, population movements, and climate change are also creating shared risks that must be managed at both national and international levels. Pathways for Peace is a joint United Nations†“World Bank Group study that originates from the conviction that the international community’s attention must urgently be refocused on prevention. A scaled-up system for preventive action would save between US$5 billion and US$70 billion per year, which could be reinvested in reducing poverty and improving the well-being of populations. The study aims to improve the way in which domestic development processes interact with security, diplomacy, mediation, and other efforts to prevent conflicts from becoming violent. It stresses the importance of grievances related to exclusion—from access to power, natural resources, security and justice, for example—that are at the root of many violent conflicts today. Based on a review of cases in which prevention has been successful, the study makes recommendations for countries facing emerging risks of violent conflict as well as for the international community. Development policies and programs must be a core part of preventive efforts; when risks are high or building up, inclusive solutions through dialogue, adapted macroeconomic policies, institutional reform, and redistributive policies are required. Inclusion is key, and preventive action needs to adopt a more people-centered approach that includes mainstreaming citizen engagement. Enhancing the participation of women and youth in decision making is fundamental to sustaining peace, as well as long-term policies to address the aspirations of women and young people.

Mobilizing the Information Society

Author : Robin Mansell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198295561
Total Pages : 541 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Mobilizing the Information Society written by Robin Mansell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an assessment of progress made towards the "information society". It begins from the premise that the construction of such a society in Europe is a dynamic process and that the journey towards a society so dependent upon digital information is far from straightforward.

The Information Society Reader

Author : Frank Webster
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415319270
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society Reader written by Frank Webster and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pulling together contributions to the information society debate from some of the field's key figures, this book addresses and examines key topics, providing an invaluable resource for students and academics alike.

The Information Society

Author : Robert Hassan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745655289
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society written by Robert Hassan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other thinkers viewed it more in terms of the recurrent nightmare of capitalism, where the processes of exploitation, commodification and alienation are given much freer rein than ever before. In this book Robert Hassan, a prominent theorist in new media and its effects, analyses and critically appraises these positions and forms them into a coherent narrative to illuminate the phenomenon. Surveying the works of major information society theorists from Daniel Bell to Nicholas Negroponte, and from Vincent Mosco to Manuel Castells, The Information Society is an invaluable resource for understanding the nature of the information society—as well as the meta-processes of neoliberal globalisation and the revolution in information technologies that made it possible.

The Information Society

Author : John Feather
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1856048187
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society written by John Feather and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is information? Who are the information rich and who are the information poor? How can there be equality of access for users in the light of the political, economic and cultural pressures that are placed upon information creators, gatherers and keepers? Set against a broad historical backdrop, The Information Society explores the information revolution that continues to gather pace, as the understanding and management of information becomes even more important in a world where data can be transmitted in a split second. This latest edition of this standard work has been fully updated to take account of the changing landscape and technological developments since 2008. The social Web, or Web 2.0, is now embedded in daily life, and some of its applications have become the most popular forms of communication system. Even the predominance of email – one of the most familiar manifestations of the information revolution – is now threatened by texting and the use of such applications as Twitter. The ways in which we expect to interact with information – and how much we are willing to pay for access to it – are throwing up new opportunities and debates. At a societal level, as the quantity of personal digitized information continues to grow exponentially, so do both the benefits of exploiting it and the dangers of misusing it. The use of ICT to make government more accessible has to be balanced against the use of technologies that enable the state to be more vigilant or more intrusive, according to one's point of view. Behind all of this lies further technical change: the massive expansion of connectivity to high-speed broadband networks; the phased abandonment of analogue broadcasting; and above all the widespread availability and use of sophisticated multi-functional mobile devices which carry voice, video and data and which can themselves be carried anywhere. The implications for daily life, for education, for work and for social and political relationships are massive. Readership: All information professionals and students on courses on information, librarianship and communications studies, where an understanding of the nature of the information society is an essential underpinning of more advanced work.

The Information Society

Author : Robert Hassan
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745641806
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society written by Robert Hassan and published by Polity. This book was released on 2008-11-03 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are we to make of the information society? Many prominent theorists have argued it to be the most profound and comprehensive transformation of economy, culture and politics since the rise of the industrial way of life in the 18th century. Some saw its arrival in a positive light, where the dreams of democracy, of ‘connectivity’ and ‘efficiency’ constituted a break with the old ways. But other thinkers viewed it more in terms of the recurrent nightmare of capitalism, where the processes of exploitation, commodification and alienation are given much freer rein than ever before. In this book Robert Hassan, a prominent theorist in new media and its effects, analyses and critically appraises these positions and forms them into a coherent narrative to illuminate the phenomenon. Surveying the works of major information society theorists from Daniel Bell to Nicholas Negroponte, and from Vincent Mosco to Manuel Castells, The Information Society is an invaluable resource for understanding the nature of the information society—as well as the meta-processes of neoliberal globalisation and the revolution in information technologies that made it possible.

The Information Society

Author : Armand Mattelart
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761949480
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book The Information Society written by Armand Mattelart and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2003-04-03 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The impact of the `information society' are multiform and transdisciplinary. There are few areas of social, political and economic life that have not been affected or challenged by the new technologies of information and communication. In this short introduction, Armand Mattelart unpacks the notion of the information society, and examines why it has become the dominant paradigm for social change in the 21st Century. Critically, he also asks why the notion has come to dominant in the absence of any critical examination of the conditions under which it has been produced. Combining a long-term historical and geopolitical perspective, Mattelart questions the axioms used to legitimate the Information Society and critically assesses the ways in which it has been conceptualised as a theoretical concept as well as policy making tool. This introduction will be of interest to all students of media and communication, as well as social scientists in general.

The Global Information Society

Author : William J. Martin
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351888897
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book The Global Information Society written by William J. Martin and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Information Literacy in an Information Society

Author : Christina S. Doyle
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788170120
Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Information Literacy in an Information Society written by Christina S. Doyle and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1994 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pathways for Communication

Author : D. J. Foskett
Publisher : London : C. Bingley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Pathways for Communication written by D. J. Foskett and published by London : C. Bingley. This book was released on 1984 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Information and understanding; Comunication and chronicles; Comunication and society; information and the psychology of users; Keepers and finders; Technology and culture; Theory andd practice; Memory and anticipation Looking for answers; A reading society References; Index.

Information Pathways

Author : Crystal Fulton
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 081087427X
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Information Pathways written by Crystal Fulton and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the advent of the Information Society, access to resources is vital to the ordinary citizen, the academic, and the career professional, as well as in public administration and private enterprise. Information Pathways: A Problem-Solving Approach to Information Literacy is designed to serve as a textbook for courses that address the need of college students to develop a basic knowledge of the complex matrix of core resources for the retrieval, management, and exploitation of information. This book shows students how to: • Build effective search strategies for solving information problems • Evaluate and use information and information sources • Apply information skills to the writing process • Be at ease with numeric information • Integrate information skills for smooth problem solving • Maintain their new fluency with information Organized into chapters that examine different ways in which information is structured, Information Pathways will help students develop and evaluate strategies for finding and adopting information.

Digital Skills

Author : Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137437030
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Digital Skills written by Alexander J. A. M. van Deursen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-07-10 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to systematically discuss the skills and literacies needed to use digital media, particularly the Internet, van Dijk and van Deursen's clear and accessible work distinguishes digital skills, analyzes their roles and prevalence, and offers solutions from individual, educational, sociological, and policy perspectives.

Pathways To Success Through Identity-based Motivation

Author : Daphna Oyserman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199712204
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Pathways To Success Through Identity-based Motivation written by Daphna Oyserman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone can imagine their future self, even very young children, and this future self is usually positive and education-linked. To make progress toward an aspired future or away from a feared future requires people to plan and take action. Unfortunately, most people often start too late and commit minimal effort to ineffective strategies that lead their attention elsewhere. As a result, their high hopes and earnest resolutions often fall short. In Pathways to Success Through Identity-Based Motivation Daphna Oyserman focuses on situational constraints and affordances that trigger or impede taking action. Focusing on when the future-self matters and how to reduce the shortfall between the self that one aspires to become and the outcomes that one actually attains, Oyserman introduces the reader to the core theoretical framework of identity-based motivation (IBM) theory. IBM theory is the prediction that people prefer to act in identity-congruent ways but that the identity-to-behavior link is opaque for a number of reasons (the future feels far away, difficulty of working on goals is misinterpreted, and strategies for attaining goals do not feel identity-congruent). Oyserman's book goes on to also include the stakes and how the importance of education comes into play as it improves the lives of the individual, their family, and their society. The framework of IBM theory and how to achieve it is broken down into three parts: how to translate identity-based motivation into a practical intervention, an outline of the intervention, and empirical evidence that it works. In addition, the book also includes an implementation manual and fidelity measures for educators utilizing this book to intervene for the improvement of academic outcomes.