Increasing attention is being paid to the political uses of the new communication technologies. Digital Democracy offers an invaluable in-depth explanation of what issues of theory and application are most important to the emergence and development of computer-mediated communication systems for political purposes.
The book provides a wide-ranging critical examination of the concept of virtual democracy as discussed in theory and as implemented in practice and policy that has been hitherto unavailable. It addresses how the Internet, World Wide Web and computer-mediated political...
Increasing attention is being paid to the political uses of the new communication technologies. Digital Democracy offers an invaluable in-depth explan...
The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies, deepening. Taken from an international perspective, the book offers full coverage of the literature and research and a theoretical framework from which to analyze and approach the issue. Where most books on the digital divide only describe and analyze the issue, Jan van Dijk presents 26 policy perspectives and instruments designed to close the divide itself.
The Deepening Divide: Inequality in the Information Society explains why the digital divide is still widening and, in advanced high-tech societies,...
"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption, terrorism, law enforcement, criminal justice and sustainable development."
--Johnson Thomas, BUSINESS INDIA
In today's interdependent world, governments must become more transparent about their crime and justice problems. The World of Crime: Breaking the...
"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspect...
"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspective....It is more than likely that this book will also interest all those who are professionally or privately interested in issues of crime, corruption, terrorism, law enforcement, criminal justice and sustainable development."
--Johnson Thomas, BUSINESS INDIA
In today's interdependent world, governments must become more transparent about their crime and justice problems. The World of Crime: Breaking the...
"This book is important for students who want to put domestic crime and justice issues and criminological theories in an international perspect...
