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THE HANDBOOK OF GLOBAL MEDIA AND COMMUN by MANSELL, ROBIN Hardback Self Help

This comprehensive handbook explores the impact of global media on communication practices and challenges. It covers a range of topics including digital media, communication theory, and the sociopolitical implications of media technologies. The contributions from leading experts provide a thorough analysis of contemporary global media landscapes. .

Mobilizing the Information Society – 9780198295563

Mobilizing the Information Society Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Strategies for Growth and Opportunity Author(s): Robin Mansell, W. Edward Steinmueller Format: Hardback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780198295563, 978-0198295563 Synopsis ‘Mobilizing the Information Society’ provides a critical assessment of progress towards the Information Society. It begins from the premise that the construction of the Information Society in Europe is a dynamic process and that the journey towards a society that is so heavily dependent on capacities to generate, distribute, and use digital information is far from straightforward. The book draws upon empirical research generated by researchers based in the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Italy, and France that was originally funded by the European Commission’s Fourth Framework Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (ACTS) Programme which ran from 1994 to 1998. This book updates the original research, integrates the results around core themes, and provides an assessment of progress that has been made towards addressing key issues of interest to policy makers, the business community, and technology and service users. The authors lay the foundation for more useful theories of the process of change, more appropriate strategies to achieve the desired aims, and more effective policies for increasing the benefits and mitigating the effects of dislocation and exclusion from the Information Society. ‘Mobilizing the Information Society’ provides unique insights into the social, economic, and political forces that are structuring the pathway to the Information Society – and its consequences for business and individuals in their everyday lives.

Imagining the Internet – 9780199697052

Imagining the Internet Please note: this item is printed on demand and will take extra time before it can be dispatched to you (up to 20 working days). Communication, Innovation, and Governance Author(s): Robin Mansell Format: Paperback Publisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom Imprint: Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 9780199697052, 978-0199697052 Synopsis This book is an impressive survey of our collective and cumulative understanding of the evolution of digital communication systems and the Internet. Whilst the information societies of the twenty-first century will develop ever more sophisticated technologies, the Internet is now a familiar and pervasive part of the world in which we live, work, and communicate. As such it is important to take stock of some fundamental questions – whether, for example, it contributes to progress, social cohesion, democracy, and growth – and at the same time to review the rich and varied theories and perspectives developed by thinkers in a range of disciplines over the last fifty years or more. In this remarkably comprehensive but concise and useful book, Robin Mansell summarizes key debates, and reviews the contributions of major thinkers in communication systems, economics, politics, sociology, psychology, and systems theory – from Norbert Wiener to Brian Arthur and Manuel Castells, and from Gregory Bateson to William Davidow and Sherry Turkle. This is an interdisciplinary and critical analysis of the way we experience the Internet in front of the screen, and of the developments behind the screen, all of which have implications for privacy ,security, intellectual property rights, and the overall governance of the Internet. The author presents fairly the ideas of the celebrants and the sceptics, and reminds us of the continuing need for careful, critical, and informed analysis of the paradoxes and challenges of the Internet, offering her own views on how we might move to greater empowerment, and suggesting policy measures and governance approaches that go beyond those commonly debated. This concise book will be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the challenges the Internet presents in the twenty-first century, and the debates and research that can inform that understanding.