Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS (European Consortium for Communications Research) [Illustrated] (Paperback)

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Global politics remained up until a few decades ago a restricted area, which was mainly accessible to powerful nation states. This has gradually changed and 'new' actors have emerged on the global scene. This has prompted states and international institutions to adopt a so-called multi-stakeholder approach, involving more and more business- as well as civil society- actors. Civil society is a notion that has slowly regained respectability in academic, as well as policy-discourses, after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the role of Eastern European civil society organisations in the democratisation of Eastern Europe. The World Summit for the Information Society (WSIS) has become a test-case for this 'multi-stakeholder approach'. At the same time, the notion of a predominantly technological information society is making way for a more cultural and social interpretation, as identified in the term 'knowledge society'. The term knowledge society clarifies the shift in emphasis from ICTs as 'drivers' of change to a perspective where these technologies are regarded as tools which may provide a new potential for combining the information embedded in ICT systems with the creative potential and knowledge embodied in people. This collection, which presents the work of members of the European Consortium for Communications Research (ECCR), attempts to discuss the major issues for a sustainable future of Knowledge Societies.

About the Author
Nico CARPENTIER is a media sociologist working at the Communication Studies Departments of the Catholic University of Brussels (KUB) and the Free University of Brussels (VUB). He is co-director of the KUB research centre CSC and member of the VUB research centre CEMESO. His theoretical focus is on discourse theory, his research interests are situated in (media)domains as sexuality, war & conflict, journalism, (political and cultural) participation and democracy. In 2004 he edited the book The ungraspable audience and wrote together with Benoît Grevisse Des Médias qui font bouger. Since 2004, he is a member of the Executive Board of the ECCR. Jan Servaes is Professor and Head of the School of Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia; Editor-in-Chief of 'Communication for Development and Social Change: A Global Journal' (Hampton Press), Associate Editor of 'Telematics and Informatics: An international journal on telecommunications and internet technology' (Pergamon/Elsevier), and Editor of the Hampton Book Series 'Communication, Globalization and Cultural Identity'. He has been President of the European Consortium For Communications Research (ECCR) and Vice-President of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), in charge of Academic Publications and Research, from 2000 to 2004.

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