Information Society: New Media, Ethics and Postmodernism

ISBN-13: 9783540760368 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 390 str.

Karamjit S. Gill; Karamjit S. Gill

Opis

This volume examines three critical debates of post-industrial society: culture and technology, information society, and postmodernism. It aims to provide theoretical and methodological underpinnings for the analysis and design of information, communication and multimedia technologies.

Spis treści

I Culture and Technology.- 1. Knowledge and the Post-Industrial Society.- 2. Media and the Cultural Condition: Language and Education.- 3. Knowledge and Sustainable Development: Towards the Furtherance of a Global Communication System.- 4. The Keyboard Blues: Modern Technology and the Rights and Risks of People at Work.- 5. Ethics is Fragile, Goodness is Not.- 6. Organisational Spaces and Intelligent Machines: A Metaphorical Approach to Ethics.- 7. Information System Design: Human Centred Approaches.- II Information Society: Working and Learning Dimensions.- 8. Technological Change, Social Innovation and Employment.- 9. Empowerment and Enslavement: Business Process Reengineering and the Transformation of Work.- 10. The Role of Creativity in Post-Industrial Society: Exploring the Implications of Non-Conventional Technologies for Work and Management Organisation.- 11. The Global Information Society and Rural Economies.- 12. Information Communication Technology and Society: A Community-Based Approach.- 13. Technology Transfer and Development.- 14. Information, Knowledge and Empowerment: The Role of Information in Rural Development.- 15. Participative Citizenry in the Information Age: The Role of Science and Technology Towards Democratic Education in a Multicultural Society.- III Information Society: Postmodernism Debate.- 16. New Media and Cultural Representation.- 17. Consensus and Authenticity in Representation: Simulation as Participative Theatre.- 18. Cognitive Technology.- 19. Electronic Mail, IT Productivity and Workplace Culture.- 20. Deadly Technology in the Post-Industrial Society: A Case Study of Firearms and Firearms Control.- 21. Resistance Postmodernism: Emancipatory Politics for a New Era or Academic Chic for a Defeatist Intelligentsia?.- 22. Postmodernism, Dance and Post-Industrial Society.- 23. Creativity Constellation for Innovation and Cooperation.