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9781856044530

Challenge and Change in the Information Society

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  • ISBN13:

    9781856044530

  • ISBN10:

    185604453X

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2002-02-01
  • Publisher: Neal Schuman Pub
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Table of Contents

Contributors vii
Introduction xiii
Part 1 The information society: fact or fiction?
1(60)
Theoretical perspectives on the information society
3(15)
John Feather
The information society: a secular view
18(24)
Alistair Black
World gone wrong? Alternative conceptions of the information society
42(19)
Dave Muddiman
Part 2 The information society and daily life
61(68)
Policy push, personal pull: trying to make sense of the journey towards the information society
63(20)
Chris Batt
Information literacy and the information society
83(21)
J. Stephen Town
Imaginative communities: turning information technology to expressive use in community groups
104(25)
Ian Beeson
Part 3 The information society and policy
129(38)
Information policy: complexity, scope and normative structure
131(16)
Ian Rowlands
Knowledge management in government
147(20)
Margaret Haines
Paul Dunn
Part 4 The information society and the information professional
167(66)
Freedom versus protection: the same coin or different currencies?
169(15)
Graham P. Cornish
Watching what happens to information about people: data protection
184(16)
J. Eric Davies
Electronic publishing: what difference does it make?
200(17)
Claire Warwick
The role of the professional in the information society
217(16)
Peter Brophy
Index 233

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