Normative theory of the information society
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- 9780415955713
- 303.483301 22 DU-N
- HM851 .D843 2012
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303.4833 VI- Virtual social networks mediated, massive and multiplayer sites | 303.4833 WE-E Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder / | 303.4833 ZI-R Resistance, liberation technology and human rights in the digital age | 303.483301 DU-N Normative theory of the information society | 303.483309 AU-C Code economy a forty-thousand-year history | 303.4833091724 DA- Data for better lives World development report 2021 | 303.4833091724 LA-I Information and communication technologies in the context of globalization evidence from developing countries |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [131]-150) and index.
"There is a clear need for a systematic, integrative, and rigorous normative theory of the information society. In this book, Duff offers a prescriptive theory to help to guide the academic and policy communities as they debate the future shape of emerging post-industrial, information-based societies. He argues that information policy needs to become anchored in a left-liberal philosophy which foregrounds a feasible permutation of the core ideals of freedom, equality and brotherhood. The information society, if it is to be worth having at all, cannot be allowed to be largely the outcome of the free play of market forces and technological determinism. The social structure, including the information economy, must be subjected to a regulatory axiological system as explicated by some leading proponents of social democracy"--
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