Acknowledgements
Page 9-9
Introduction: Competing Visions: The Social Impact of Information and Communications Technology
Page 10-17
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Perspectives on the Information Society
Page 18-135
-----Forthcoming Features: Information and Communications Technologies and the Sociology of the Future
Page 20-33
-----Illusions of Perfect Information and Fantasies of Control in the Information Society
Page 34-56
-----Software Industry, Religious Nationalism, and Social Movements in India: Aspects of Globalization?
Page 57-65
-----Labouring to Be a Citizen: Trade Unions, Public Interest and Cyber-Populism in India
Page 66-79
-----Imagining the Knowledge-Based Economy: Soon-to-be Labour Force Entrants Predict the Future of Work
Page 80-87
-----Market Knowledge and the Good Citizen
Page 88-94
-----Neo-Liberalizing Welfare: Politics and Information Technology in a New Era of Governance
Page 95-103
-----Defining the Canadian DNA Data Bank: A Sociological Perspective
Page 104-121
-----ICTs in Dutch Schools: Problems, Prospects and Promises
Page 122-135
Competing Interests: Censorship and Access to Information
Page 136-209
-----International Communication and the Extremist Right
Page 138-147
-----The Harm of Hate Propaganda
Page 148-164
-----Censorship in Library Collection Development Practices and Civic Participation: A Theoretical Approach
Page 165-183
-----Having a Cow: Reactions To "Veggie Libel" Laws and the Oprah Trials
Page 184-196
-----Risk and the Internet: Perception and Reality
Page 197-209
Concentration of Ownership in the Information World
Page 210-285
-----Universal Access in IHAC and NIIAC: Transformed Narrative and Meaning in Information Policy
Page 212-219
-----Saving Books from the Market: Price Maintenance Policies in the United States and Europe
Page 220-231
-----Books and Commerce in an Age of Virtual Capital: The Changing Political Economy of Bookselling
Page 232-250
-----Copyright and Citizenship
Page 251-267
-----National Public Radio: The Case for Normative Mission in the Marketplace
Page 268-285
Citizenship and Democracy
Page 286-427
-----Human Rights in the Information Society: Civic Participation in Shaping the Future
Page 288-300
-----Networks for Social Knowledge: The Anti-NAFTA Challenge
Page 301-310
-----Globalization, Information Society and Social Movement
Page 311-322
-----Web Sites of Resistance: Internetworking and Civil Society
Page 323-337
-----The Citizen's Right To Communicate
Page 338-347
-----Crossing the Great Divide: Connecting Citizens to Government in New South Wales, Australia
Page 348-361
-----Jacques and Jill at VPL: Citizenship and the Use of the Internet at Vancouver Public Library
Page 362-372
-----Does a Networked Society Foster Participatory Democracy Or is Commitment to Place-based Community Still a Necessity for Civic Engagement?
Page 373-388
-----Access to U.S. Federal Government Information for People with Disabilities: An Analysis of the Legal Requirements, Interpretations, and Implications
Page 389-400
-----Remapping the Canadian North: Nunavut, Communications and Inuit Participatory Development
Page 401-415
-----Bush and Bureaucrats: Women's Civic Participation from the Australian Outback
Page 416-427
The Contributors
Page 428-431
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