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Information Society

New Media, Ethics and Postmodernism

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  • © 1996

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Editors:
  1. Karamjit S. Gill

    1. SEAKE Centre, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, UK

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Part of the book series: Human-centred Systems (HCS)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
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  3. Information Society: Working and Learning Dimensions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 125-125
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    2. Technological Change, Social Innovation, and Employment

      • Peter van den Besselaar, Teresa Mom
      Pages 127-146

    3. Empowerment and Enslavement: Business process reengineering and the transformation of work

      • Matthew Jones
      Pages 147-158

    4. The Role of Creativity in Post-Industrial Society: Exploring the implications of non-conventional technologies for work and management organisation

      • Paul Levy
      Pages 159-168

    5. The Global Information Society and Rural Economies

      • Arild Jansen
      Pages 169-185

    6. Information Communication Technology and Society: A community-based approach

      • Peter Day
      Pages 186-210

    7. Technology Transfer and Development

      • Fatima Portela Cysne
      Pages 211-229

    8. Information, Knowledge and Empowerment: The role of information in rural development

      • Janet Cooper
      Pages 230-245

    9. Participative Citizenry in the Information Age: The role of science and technology towards democratic education in a multicultural society

      • John Clay
      Pages 246-253

  4. Information Society: Postmodernism Debate

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 255-255
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    2. New Media and Cultural Representation

      • Jeff Taylor
      Pages 257-275
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Human-centredness: A Challenge to Post-industrial Europe? The key power in industrial society has been linked to the possession of capital and factory. In the "information society" it could be rather different. If one accepts that that the key power in the information society will be linked not so much to the ownership of information but to human creativity nourished by that information, the productive force of today and tomorrow, could be more and more the human brain. Making use of one's intelligence is always accompanied by positive emotion, which in turn further activates the intelligence. But, unfortunately, under present conditions workers of all levels live in fear, anxiety and stress rather than desire and motivation. The question of "basic human ecology" (quality of life) is, therefore, a major strategic factor. It is precisely the opposite to the mechanisms of exclusion that currently dominate our society: exclusion of young people through joblessness - but also exclusion through technology, as with the helplessness of older people or the poorly educated confronted with ticket dispensing machines or other automats. This is not idle theorizing, it corresponds to concrete facts. It is, for example, how some observers interpret the crisis at IBM. Because its programs were less 'human-friendly', it was shaken to its foundations by Apple and Microsof- though it seems since to have learnt its lesson.

Editors and Affiliations

  • SEAKE Centre, Department of Library and Information Studies, University of Brighton, Falmer, Brighton, UK

    Karamjit S. Gill

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Information Society

  • Book Subtitle: New Media, Ethics and Postmodernism

  • Editors: Karamjit S. Gill

  • Series Title: Human-centred Systems

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3249-3

  • Publisher: Springer London

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 1996

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-540-76036-8Published: 02 April 1996

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-3249-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 1431-0856

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXXII, 390

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Computer Science, general

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