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Frontmatter -- The Editors -- Contents -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Competing Visions: The Social Impact of Information and Communications Technology / Harris, Roma / Pendakur, Manjunath -- Perspectives on the Information Society -- Forthcoming Features: Information and Communications Technologies and the Sociology of the Future / Golding, Peter -- Illusions of Perfect Information and Fantasies of Control in the Information Society / Winseck, Dwayne -- Software Industry, Religious Nationalism, and Social Movements in India: Aspects of Globalization? / Harindranath, Ramaswami -- Labouring to Be a Citizen: Trade Unions, Public Interest and Cyber-Populism in India / Chakravartty, Paula -- Imagining the Knowledge-Based Economy: Soon-to-be Labour Force Entrants Predict the Future of Work / Harris, Roma / Wilkinson, Margaret Ann -- Market Knowledge and the Good Citizen / Maxwell, Richard -- Neo-Liberalizing Welfare: Politics and Information Technology in a New Era of Governance / Barry, G. Dean -- Defining the Canadian DNA Data Bank: A Sociological Perspective / Gerlach, Neil -- ICTs in Dutch Schools: Problems, Prospects and Promises / D'Haenens, Leen / Kokhuis, Madelon / Summeren, Cindy van -- Competing Interests: Censorship and Access to Information -- International Communication and the Extremist Right / Downing, John -- The Harm of Hate Propaganda / Aronovitch, Milliard -- Censorship in Library Collection Development Practices and Civic Participation: A Theoretical Approach / Dilevko, Juris -- Having a Cow: Reactions To "Veggie Libel" Laws and the Oprah Trials / Knott, Diana -- Risk and the Internet: Perception and Reality / Zimmer, Eric A. / Hunter, Christopher D. -- Concentration of Ownership in the Information World -- Universal Access in IHAC and NIIAC: Transformed Narrative and Meaning in Information Policy / Dowding, Martin R. -- Saving Books from the Market: Price Maintenance Policies in the United States and Europe / Miller, Laura J. -- Books and Commerce in an Age of Virtual Capital: The Changing Political Economy of Bookselling / Bekken, Jon -- Copyright and Citizenship / Rushton, Michael -- National Public Radio: The Case for Normative Mission in the Marketplace / McCauley, Michael P. -- Citizenship and Democracy -- Human Rights in the Information Society: Civic Participation in Shaping the Future / Hamelink, Cees -- Networks for Social Knowledge: The Anti-NAFTA Challenge / Huyer, Sophia -- Globalization, Information Society and Social Movement / Lemire, Marc -- Web Sites of Resistance: Internetworking and Civil Society / O'Neill, Kelly M. -- The Citizen's Right To Communicate / Birdsall, William F. / Rasmussen, Merrilee / C., Q. -- Crossing the Great Divide: Connecting Citizens to Government in New South Wales, Australia / Houghton, Jan / Tsiu-Shuang Chin, Linda -- Jacques and Jill at VPL: Citizenship and the Use of the Internet at Vancouver Public Library / Balka, Ellen / Peterson, Brian J. -- Does a Networked Society Foster Participatory Democracy Or is Commitment to Place-based Community Still a Necessity for Civic Engagement? / Wilson, Mary -- Access to U.S. Federal Government Information for People with Disabilities: An Analysis of the Legal Requirements, Interpretations, and Implications / Lauffer, Kimberly A. -- Remapping the Canadian North: Nunavut, Communications and Inuit Participatory Development / Valaskakis, Gail Guthrie -- Bush and Bureaucrats: Women's Civic Participation from the Australian Outback / Simpson, Lyn / Daws, Leonie / Wood, Leanne / Previte, Josephine -- The Contributors -- Index
Published Under the Garamond Imprint The new century promises to be a roller coaster ride fueled by rapidly changing information and communications technologies (ICTs). With the capacity for the almost instant transfer of digital information across and beyond our planet, commonly held notions of distance and speed, as well as our understanding of the nature and meaning of interpersonal contact are being challenged and redefined. Many believe that the very structural underpinnings of society will be transformed. This book reflects each contributor's vision of the future, visions that range from the enthusiastic and hopeful to the pessimistic and fearful. The editors' purpose is to alert readers to what lies ahead in the new information society, and to help unravel the public policy implications of the changes wrought by information and communications technologies. A major concern of this book is whether states are able to provide the necessary balance between the often competing priorities of global business and the interests of individuals and groups of citizens. For example, are traditional inter-state boundaries and borders becoming too eroded, espectially in the South, as a result of globalization? Whatever role governments are to play, it is inevitable that balance will only be achieved through active citizen participation, no longer limited by geographic constraints