Social dimensions of information technology : issues for the new millennium
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Social dimensions of information technology : issues for the new millennium
Idea Group Pub., c2000
- : pbk
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
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  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Kyoto
  Osaka
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  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
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  Tokushima
  Kagawa
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  Kochi
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  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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  United Kingdom
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This anthology brings together multiple viewpoints on the social dimensions of the revolution in information technology. The chapters cover social, political, educational, personal, and international dimensions of information technology impacts. Each chapter focuses on different aspects of the effects of computing and the new information technologies that have accelerated every area of human life.
Social Dimensions of Information Technology: Issues for the New Millennium raises important issues with profound implications for public policy and societal development.
Table of Contents
- Virtual Communities and Social Capital
- Human Capital Issues and Information Technology
- the Progress of the Internet
- the Co-Evolution of Society and Multimedia Technology
- the World Wide Web and Local Media in the 1996 Presidential Election
- Electronic Communities - Assessing Equality of Access
- Ethics, Law and Information Technology - the Transformative Role of Rhetoric
- Creating a Democratic Public Sphere through Political Discussion
- Changing Roles in Information Dissemination and Education
- Technological Change, Virtual Learning and Higher Education - Prospects, Problems, Potentials
- the Role of Information Technology in Quality Education
- the Paradox of Paperless Classes
- Personal Computers, Mass Media and Other Uses of Free Time
- Manufacturing Knowledge - Technology, Culture and Social Inequality at Work
- Researching Telework - Past Concerns and Future Directions
- the Information Age - Apartheid, Cultural Imperialism or Global Village?
- Networking for Sustainable Development - Innovative Approaches Outside the "Global Village"
- Information in and on Africa - Past, Present and Future
- World Information Flows and the Impact of New Technology
- International Network for Integrated Social Science.
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