Society on the Line or Planning Your Future

Society on the Line: Information Politics in the Digital Age

Author: William H Dutton

Society on the Line presents a new way of thinking about the social and economic implications of the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs). It offers a clear overview of information in the digital age, and explains how social and technical choices about ICTs influence access to information, people, services, and technologies themselves.

Table of Contents:

Part I. A New Perspective of the Information Revolution

1. Introduction: Tele-Access - The Outcome of an Ecology of Games

2. Information Politics, Technology and Society

Part II. Social Dimensions of the Technical: Social, Cultural, and Political Processes Shaping Tele-Access

3. Technologies Shaping Tele-Access: A Force for Social Change

4. The Social Shaping of Tele-Access: Inventing our Futures

Part III. Tele-Access in Business, Management and Work

5. The Reach and Boundaries of Business and Management: Virtual Organizations

6. Redesigning the Workplace: Challenging Geographical and Cultural Constraints on Access

Part IV. Public Access in Politics, Governance, and Education

7. Digital Democracy: Electronic Access to Politics and Services

8. Knowledge Access: Reconfiguring Users and Producers in Teaching and Research

Part V. The Virtual City: Shaping Access in Everyday Life

9. The Intelligent Household: For Richer or Poorer

10. Wiring the Global Village

Part VI. Industrial Strategies and Public Policies

11. Regulating Access: Broadening the Policy Debate

12. The Politics of Tele-Access: Social Relations in a Network Society

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Bibliography

Book review: Internet as a Diverse Community or Internet Marketing

Planning Your Future: Keys to Financial Freedom

Author: Stephen Konowalow

Employing a friendly approach to the study of money, this book reveals proven strategies and information for saving for a sound financial future and retirement. It provides both the money sage and neophyte with more realistic ideas about money, especially their money, and the art of managing it. Chapter topics cover: the secret to financial independence; finding the money to invest; planning a budget for financial success; how to be a money knowledgeable, savvy, and wise investor; using gifts from the government; and more. For individuals interested in their own financial planing—those in school, starting out in the working world, or retiring.