The European information society a reality check 2003 (Intellect, 2003)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-178)
1 - European Information Society: A wake-up call - Jan Servaes -- - 2 - European Union ICT Policies: Neglected Social and Cultural Dimensions - Paschal Preston -- - 3 - Policy challenges to the creation of a European Information Society: A critical analysis - Caroline Pauwels and Jean-Claude Burgelman -- - 4 - Issues in measuring Information Society adoption in Europe - Francois Heinderyckx -- - 5 - Access and participation in the discourse of the digital divide: The European perspective at/on the WSIS - Nico Carpentier -- - 6 - Communication Rights and the European Information Society - Cees J. Hamelink -- - 7 - Business Issues facing New Media - Robert G. Picard -- - 8 - Perspectives for Employment in the Transition to a Knowledge Society - Peter Johnston -- - 9 - Political Internet: Between dogma and reality - Andrea Ricci -- - 10 - New roles for users in online news media? Exploring the application of interactivity through European case studies - Brian Trench -- - 11 - Social and Human Capital in the Knowledge Society: Policy implications - Luisella Pavan-Woolfe -- - 12 - Digital citizenship and information inequalities: Challenges for the future - Jan Servaes
This series consists of books arising from the intellectual work of ECCR members. The globalisation of social, cultural and economic relations is facilitated, and at the same time conditioned by developments in the information and communications technologies (ICT) and infrastructure. Human knowledge brought mankind from an oral to a literate culture, thanks to the invention of the print media. The development of the electronic media in the last century paved the path for the information age, in which spatial and temporal constraints are lifted. ''In every society, the production, distribution