Who is going to reap the rewards of new information and communication technologies? Focusing on a theme of exclusion, Access Denied in the Information Age dispels the myths of the information society. The authors here take a few steps back from the hype and consider the real place of these new technologies in society.
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Stephen Lax is Lecturer in Communications Technology at the Institute of Communications, University of Leeds.
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Popular conceptions of the 'information society' are useful in conveying the social significance of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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New York, United States, Open University, Los Angeles, Department of Commerce, Research Machines, America Online, Polity Press, Time Warner, World Wide Web, Benton Foundation, Internet Surveys, Oxford University Press, Prime Minister, Audit Commission, Telecommunications Act, Anwar Ibrahim, Bill Gates, Cambridge University Press, Crystal Palace, Frances Cairncross, Harvard University Press, Intellect Books, Labour Party, Moore's Law New!
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Popular conceptions of the 'information society' are useful in conveying the social significance of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
pager blackout, pager owners, pager users, postmodern university Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, Open University, Los Angeles, Department of Commerce, Research Machines, America Online, Polity Press, Time Warner, World Wide Web, Benton Foundation, Internet Surveys, Oxford University Press, Prime Minister, Audit Commission, Telecommunications Act, Anwar Ibrahim, Bill Gates, Cambridge University Press, Crystal Palace, Frances Cairncross, Harvard University Press, Intellect Books, Labour Party, Moore's Law New!
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- Media Technology and Society: A History From the Telegrapph to the Internet by Brian Winston in Front Matter, page 176, and page 196
- Mass Communications And American Empire: Second Edition, Updated (Critical Studies in Communication & in the Cultural Industries) by Herbert Schiller on page 178, and page 196
- Beyond the Horizon by Stephen Lax in Front Matter, and Table of Contents
- Women in Computing by Rachel Lander on page 102, and page 104
- The Media Monopoly 6th Edition by Ben H. Bagdikian on page 184, and page 195
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- Culture at the Cutting Edge: Tracking Caribbean Poplular Music by Curwen Best in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Asian America.Net: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Cyberspace by Rachel C. Lee on page 233
- Beyond All Reason: Living with Ideology in the University by Ronald Barnett in Back Matter
- Political Journalism: New Challenges, New Practices (Routledge/ECPR Studies in European Political Science) by Raymond Kuhn in Back Matter
- Web.Studies (Arnold Publication) by Ross Horsley in Front Matter
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