The Information Society: Emerging Landscapes: IFIP International Conference on Landscapes of ICT and Social Accountability, Turku, Finland, June 27-29, ... Federation for Informati
Автор: [автор не указан] Год: 2006 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 354 ISBN: 0387305270 In 1990, members of IFIP Working Group 9.2 were instrumental in producing one of the first books to describe the ‘Landscape’ of the new phenomena created by the uptake of computerization – the so-called Information Society. Ten years later, at the annual Namur meeting of its Working Group in January 2000, a proposal was made to produce a second book and the brainstorming began. In the time that had passed, the developments in computer technology had brought the Internet within reach of ordinary citizens, and the World Wide Web had spawned a new ‘e-industry’. The landscape of the information society had changed dramatically, and it continues to change at a breathtaking pace. This book is the result of those discussions, culminatingA with the "Landscapes" Conference held at Turku University, Finland, in July 2005. The themes chosen for the conference – philosophy, ethics and sociological aspects, culture and education; social aspects; politics and...
