The European Information Society: A Reality Check

by Servaes, Jan

• ISBN13: 9781841501062
• ISBN10: 1841501069
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr

Author Biography

Jean-Claude Burgelman (PhD) is project leader at IPTS (Institute for prospective technology studies, one of the Joint Research Centres of the EU, in Sevilla, Spain). He is on leave as professor at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) Nico Carpentier (PhD) is a media sociologist working at the Department of Communication Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) Cees J. Hamelink (PhD) is Professor of International Communication at the University of Amsterdam, and Professor of Media, Religion and Culture at the Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands Francois Heinderyckx (PhD) teaches media sociology and political communication at the University of Brussels (ULB) Peter Johnston (PhD) has worked with the Information Society DG of the European Commission since 1988 Caroline Pauwels (PhD) is attached to the Communication Department of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and the present Director of SMIT, a research center focusing on media, information and telecommunication Luisella Pavan-Woolfe graduated in Political Science from the University of Padova. She taught in that university in the faculty of Anglo-American Law Robert G. Picard (PhD), VTTS Professor of Media Economics and manager of the Media Group, Business Research and Development Centre, Turku School of Economics and Business Administration in Finland Paschal Preston (PhD) is Professor at the School of Communications and Director of the Centre for Society Technology and Media (STeM) at the Dublin City University in Ireland Andrea Ricci is currently completing the PhD at the Catholic University of Brussels (KUB) Jan Servaes (PhD) is President of the European Consortium for Communications Research (ECCR), Vice-President of the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), in charge of Research and Academic Publications, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, at the Katholieke Universiteit Brussel (KUB) Brian Trench (PhD) is Head of the School of Communications, Dublin City University, Ireland

Table of Contents

By way of introduction	5	(6)
Introducing the issue
The European Information Society: A wake-up call	11	(22)
Jan Servaes
Checking discourses, policies, and findings
European Union ICT Policies: Neglected Social and Cultural Dimensions	33	(26)
Paschal Preston
Policy challenges to the creation of a European Information Society: A critical analysis	59	(28)
Caroline Pauwels
Jean-Claude Burgelman
Issues in measuring Information Society adoption in Europe	87	(12)
Francois Heinderyckx
Access and participation in the discourse of the digital divide: The European perspective at/on the WSIS	99	(22)
Nico Carpentier
Communication Rights and the European Information Society	121	(28)
Cees J. Hamelink
Checking in more detail
Business Issues facing New Media	149	(16)
Robert G. Picard
Perspectives for Employment in the Transition to a Knowledge Society	165	(12)
Peter Johnston
The Political Internet: Between dogma and reality	177	(28)
Andrea Ricci
New roles for users in online news media? Exploring the application of interactivity through European case studies	205	(20)
Brian Trench
By way of conclusions
Social and Human Capital in the Knowledge Society: Policy implications	225	(6)
Luisella Pavan-Woolfe
Digital citizenship and information inequalities: Challenges for the future	231	(8)
Jan Servaes
List of acronyms	239	(2)
Note on contributors	241