Jan Servaes & Nico Carpentier 
Towards a Sustainable Information Society [EPUB ebook] 
Deconstructing WSIS

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The Information Society is one of the recurrent imaginaries to describe present-day structures, discourses and practices. Within its meaning is enshrined the promise of a better world, sometimes naively assuming a technological deus ex machina, in other cases hoping for the creation of policy tools that will overcome a diversity of societal divides. With the two-phased World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), the United Nations attempted to stimulate the development of such tools. Simultaneously, the WSIS is a large-scale experiment in multistakeholderism. The objective was to create a more balanced decision-making process that would allow the voices of civil society and business actors to be heard in international politics. This book aims to evaluate the potentialities of both the Information Society, and the WSIS in supporting and constructing more democratic, just and developed societies. It is the second book arising from the intellectual work of European Consortium for Communications Research members.
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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Bart Staes:


   Foreword: Towards a New Democratic Lingua Franca 


 


Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier:


   Introduction:


   Steps to Achieve a Sustainable Information Society


 


17 Bart Cammaerts & Nico Carpentier:


     1: The Unbearable Lightness of Full Participation in a Global Context: WSIS and Civil Society 


         Participation


 


51 Claudia Padovani & Arjuna Tuzzi:


     2: Communication Governance and the Role of Civil Society. Reflections on Participation and the 


         Changing Scope of Political Action 


 


81 Divina Frau Meigs:


     3: Civil Society’s Involvement in the WSIS Process. Drafting the Alter-agenda


 


97 Ned Rossiter:


     4: WSIS and Organized Networks as New Civil Society Movements 


 


117 Stefano Martelli:


       5: How Civil Society Can Help Civil Society 


 


129 Miyase Christensen:


       6: What Price the Information Society? A Candidate Country Perspective within the Context of


            the EU’s Information Society Policies


 


151 Michel Bauwens:


       7: Peer-to-Peer: From Technology to Politics 


 


169 Paul Verschueren:


       8: From Virtual to Everyday Life


 


185 Claudio Antonio Feijóo González,  José Luis Gómez Barroso,  Ana Laguía González, Sergio Ramos Villaverde, David Rojo Alonso: 


       9: Shifting from Equity to Efficiency Rationales: Global Benefits Resulting from a Digital


           Solidarity Fund


 


195 Barbara Thomass:


       10: PSB as an Instrument of Implementing WSIS Aims


 


203 Afterword


       Peter Johnston


       Towards a Knowledge Society and Sustainable Development.


       Deconstructing the WSIS in the European Policy Context


 


207 ECCR:


       Recommendations on the Subject of Research and Education in the Area of the Information 


       Society


 


211 Notes on Contributors

Über den Autor

Nico Carpentier is extraordinary professor at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic); he also holds a part-time position at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (Lithuania). Previously, he was treasurer (2005–12) and vice-president (2008–12) of the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA), and treasurer (2012–16) of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR). Currently, he is IAMCR president (2020–24).
Contact: Institute of Communication Studies and Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, Charles University, Smetanovo nábřeží 6, 110 01 Prague, Czech Republic.
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