Towards a sustainable information society deconstructing WSIS
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Bristol :
Intellect
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
| Series: | European Consortium for Communications Research (Series)
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009433486106719 |
| Summary: | 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 |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (221 p.) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781280477102 9786610477104 9781841509471 |
