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| Introduction |
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Competing Visions: The Social Impact of Information and Communications Technology |
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9 | (10) |
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| Perspectives on the Information Society |
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Forthcoming Features: Information and Communications Technologies and the Sociology of the Future |
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19 | (14) |
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Illusions of Perfect Information and Fantasies of Control in the Information Society |
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33 | (23) |
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Software Industry, Religious Nationalism, and Social Movements in India: Aspects of Globalization? |
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56 | (9) |
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Labouring to Be a Citizen: Trade Unions, Public Interest and Cyber-Populism in India |
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65 | (14) |
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Imagining the Knowledge-Based Economy: Soon-to-be Labour Force Entrants Predict the Future of Work |
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79 | (8) |
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Market Knowledge and the Good Citizen |
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87 | (7) |
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Neo-Liberalizing Welfare: Politics and Information Technology in a New Era of Governance |
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94 | (9) |
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Defining the Canadian DNA Data Bank: A Sociological Perspective |
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103 | (18) |
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ICTs in Dutch Schools: Problems, Prospects and Promises |
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121 | (16) |
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| Competing Interests: Censorship and Access to Information |
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International Communication and the Extremist Right |
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137 | (10) |
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The Harm of Hate Propaganda |
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147 | (17) |
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Censorship in Library Collection Development Practices and Civic Participation: A Theoretical Approach |
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164 | (19) |
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Having a Cow: Reactions To ``Veggie Libel'' Laws and the Oprah Trials |
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183 | (13) |
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Risk and the Internet: Perception and Reality |
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196 | (15) |
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| Concentration of Ownership in the Information World |
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Universal Access in IHAC and NIIAC: Transformed Narrative and Meaning in Information Policy |
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211 | (8) |
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Saving Books from the Market: Price Maintenance Policies in the United States and Europe |
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219 | (12) |
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Books and Commerce in an Age of Virtual Capital: The Changing Political Economy of Bookselling |
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231 | (19) |
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Copyright and Citizenship |
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250 | (17) |
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National Public Radio: The Case for Normative Mission in the Marketplace |
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267 | (20) |
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| Citizenship and Democracy |
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Human Rights in the Information Society: Civic Participation in Shaping the Future |
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287 | (13) |
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Networks for Social Knowledge: The Anti-NAFTA Challenge |
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300 | (10) |
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Globalization, Information Society and Social Movement |
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310 | (12) |
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Web Sites of Resistance: Internetworking and Civil Society |
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322 | (15) |
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The Citizen's Right To Communicate |
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337 | (10) |
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Crossing the Great Divide: Connecting Citizens to Government in New South Wales, Australia |
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347 | (14) |
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Jacques and Jill at VPL: Citizenship and the Use of the Internet at Vancouver Public Library |
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361 | (11) |
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Does a Networked Society Foster Participatory Democracy Or is Commitment to Place-based Community Still a Necessity for Civic Engagement? |
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372 | (16) |
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Access to U.S. Federal Government Information for People with Disabilities: An Analysis of the Legal Requirements, Interpretations, and Implications |
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388 | (12) |
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Remapping the Canadian North: Nunavut, Communications and Inuit Participatory Development |
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400 | (15) |
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Bush and Bureaucrats: Women's Civic Participation from the Australian Outback |
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415 | (12) |
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| The Contributors |
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427 | (4) |
| Index |
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